My WIP is in fairly good shape. It's about 100k with maybe 40k more to write and probably nearly as much to excise. I have a pretty good outline. I know which scenes need to be written, which are well polished, and a pretty good idea about where the rest stand. There is certainly enough to keep me busy for April.
So, this NaNo exercise is not about writing my novel, it's about rewriting it / finishing it. Has anyone here used NaNo for this? If so, how did you approach it? Here's my plan.
I have a number of scenes that have only outline notes. I'm treating these just as I would any new writing.
I have a number of scenes that need major revisions. I don't know if I'm going to try to revise or if I'm just going to set them aside and rewrite them from scratch.
Then I have the scenes that are too close to abandon but still need work. I'm going to do that work and for the word count I'm going to count the whole scene.
In short, I'm counting every completed scene, regardless of its starting point, on the grounds that done is done and not done ain't.
I've made a schedule. This scene on these two days, that scene on the next two days. If the first one isn't done, I let it go, unless I really feel I'm rolling.
I'd be interested to hear from other folks who have wrestled the Revision Demon.
So, this NaNo exercise is not about writing my novel, it's about rewriting it / finishing it. Has anyone here used NaNo for this? If so, how did you approach it? Here's my plan.
I have a number of scenes that have only outline notes. I'm treating these just as I would any new writing.
I have a number of scenes that need major revisions. I don't know if I'm going to try to revise or if I'm just going to set them aside and rewrite them from scratch.
Then I have the scenes that are too close to abandon but still need work. I'm going to do that work and for the word count I'm going to count the whole scene.
In short, I'm counting every completed scene, regardless of its starting point, on the grounds that done is done and not done ain't.
I've made a schedule. This scene on these two days, that scene on the next two days. If the first one isn't done, I let it go, unless I really feel I'm rolling.
I'd be interested to hear from other folks who have wrestled the Revision Demon.