Wri50KInAMo Day 19
In light of the recent events happening at the NaNoWriMo, I will no longer be using or participating in the online event. Instead, I will continue to conduct my experiment on transparency and write 50K in the month of November on my own in a personal setting I’m referring to as Wri50KInAMo. I have deleted my NaNoWriMo account and will be keeping public accountability here on my Substack going forward.
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It’s funny when I look at the process of writing, as it varies from book to book. You know that saying about how one needs to do something for 10,000 hours before becoming a master of it? I’ve never felt that was true of writing, or at least, not in the way I think. If I could rewrite the same book over and over again, sure; perhaps those 10,000 hours of it will make me a master. But because the process is so different for each book I’ve written, I feel like I’m constantly learning something new every time I draft. Because of that, progress is difficult to measure.
But today I felt as though I have made progress in my storytelling abilities, if not necessarily the daily tedium of writing. I’m now starting to see before I’ve gotten 80,000 words into a story where things need to happen, and how those events will be brought into play later in the story. Perhaps that’s why I’ve been stuck on the beginning of this novel for so long. I need the proper setup because I’m finally starting to see at an earlier point in time the ways in which I need to pay it off.
Of course, this could all just be wishful thinking. Writing, for me, feels like walking through the woods with only a flashlight in hand—beyond the circle of light is darkness, so it’s hard to tell just how far I have to go, and even harder to tell just how far I’ve come. But I think I’ve come a long way. And that feels good to say, even as writing itself was ass today.
That’s Day 19 of Wri50KInAMo done! How about y’all? Any successes? Failures?