NaNoGoMo

[jacey]

OK I pulled my finger out and had a surge. I reached my 50k words (50,326 to be precise) for NaNoWriMo with six whole hours to spare, but I'm pretty sure that as soon as I take the time to go back and reevaluate that there's a bunch of stuff to cut and rewrite. Some of it is almost in note form, and I reckion I'm still 10k or 20k short of an ending. I have got a new beginning, however. The problem is that it shoves the arrival of the dragons a little bit further back in the story, but it's a better scene setter than the previous one that I cut before NaNo started. The new opening has a daring theft from the castle (uncovered by Ali) and news that the war is over. It also sets up Aunt Beatrice as a mean old antagonist of the pain-in-the-arse variety (but who will soon pale into insignificance beside all the other problems the girls will face).

Now the pressure of NaNo is over I'm going to check it all over before and do a quick and dirty revision before I move forwards. Yeah, I know, never revise before you've finished your first draft - but actually I'm more of a rolling revision kind of girl.
:-)

Comments

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I prefer rolling revisions too. I think that there's a place for reserving some revisions for later, but a lot of the time it's easier to solve continuity issues that arise from revision if you do it while the original is fresh. It doesn't prevent coninuity issues later, but it might lessen them.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Yes, absolutely. I've mucked about with this, adding in chunks at the beginning which affect continuity, so I'm much better correcting that now while it's fresh than trying to remember what I intended later.