Nanowrimo 2008 Day 2
Word count: 5,650
Words remaining: 38,059
I wrote lots of words today. Similar to yesterday, most of them were telling and not showing. I’m comfortable with that approach for now. This reminds me of the last few days of most Nanowrimo years: I get to a point where I’m pushing words to get to the end, and coming up with ideas for what the story should have been. I’m only telling the story in the technical sense. There is little craft involved and the words themselves show little in the way of skill. What I am doing is putting the pieces and characters of the world together. What I need to do is go back through those pieces and turn them into scenes that develop story. I think that’s known as a second draft.
We’ll see how tomorrow goes when I return to work. I highly recommend Marathons that start on weekends. There’s great freedom in having an entire morning with nothing to do but push words.