A logophile delinquent
So, I haven’t posted much in the past month (10 posts in November, by my count). Sorry. One of those posts wasn’t even a post. It was me saying I wouldn’t post for a week because of a project I was working on.
Well, that project is done. I was participating in NaNoWriMo, which challenges you to write a 50,000-word novel between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30. I did it, barely, hitting 50,162 words sometime around 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning. What I wrote is a big mess, not anything like a finished work. But I did it, which is the whole point of NaNo. Not to write something good. Just to write. I wanted to know if I could do that. I can. Sweet.
Anyway, writing up to 3,000 words a day (to make up for days when I wrote nothing) really didn’t leave me any time for the blog. But I’m done, so I’m back. Expect new Talk Wordy goodness starting tomorrow.
Posted on December 4, 2008 1:56 pm, in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
So, when do you sart revising? No point in wasting all that effort…
NaNo is a perfectly valid excuse for shorting your readers on November posts, so no worries. As a fellow NaNoWriMo winner (whose blog also suffered during November), I congratulate you!
Well done, sir. I wrote nearly 80,000 words in November and just finished my first pass at revision, in which I added nearly 1,400. God, I love the fiction editing process. In newspaper work, editing means “reducing.”
That’s such a great project! I’m definitely doing it!
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