Showing posts with label Failure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Failure. Show all posts

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Camp Nanowrimo: Day 06

Well... I fail. I forgot to make some goals for today in yesterday's post. I guess I should probably get those out before I start my writing for the day.

Today is going to be a little more lax, I'm starting late, but I wrote a lot yesterday so I'm still sitting ahead. I'd love to get further ahead though before I hit that inevitable wall I know I'll meet in the near future. With that said, here's my goals for today:

Day Six Goals

  • Hit the 15,000 word mark, effectively putting me three days ahead.
  • Begin the main character's journey to resolve her conflict.
  • Get the final player introduced to the story. (I'm really hoping this happens today)
  • Have Draper conquer his own inner conflicts
 And here's how day six is going...

I'm so uninspired it's killing me. All I want to do is read at this point, but if I don't write the day's worth of words I know I'll be disappointed in myself, but this one's going to be like pulling teeth. I knew it was coming, I just had hoped it wouldn't be this soon into the race. Though I admit, I'm finding it hard to get into writing, once I've got the flow down I can hardly stop.

15,000 will be stretch today, I think it's more likely a 14,000 day which is a little upsetting, but we'll see what happens. Being as it's already almost one in the afternoon and I literally feel no motivation whatsoever... well, that sentences finishes itself.

I haven't touched the main character's conflict in the less than 800 words I've wrote so far today today... what a surprise. (Heavy sarcasm intended).

The last person I'm dying to get introduced for the last two/three days is no closer to being introduced than they were yesterday. I'm going to go nuts if I see it as a goal for much longer.

Finally, Draper is beginning his journey to resolve his conflicts so we'll see where that goes. At least something is on track today.

Day six feelings:

Not going over and above for day seven, I plan to just focus on word count for the day

Day Seven Goals

  • Word count of 16666 by the end of the day.
  • Reach a word count of 15,000 by the end of the morning.
  • Ideally break the 17,000 mark before sleep happens
PS. I finished a book yesterday so be on the look out for a new review!

Sunday, 5 April 2015

Camp Nanowrimo: Day 04

So, about yesterday....
A whopping 547 words later I accomplished none of my goals. Today will be an exercise in mass word production. I had hoped to get in more words than that, but obviously I failed. This is not the end all however, I'm back at the desk, with coffee and ready to annihilate today's word count. Because of this I am upping the stake considerably.

Day Four Goals (aka what I didn't do)

  • break the day seven word goal of 11,666 (holy crap, that's more than 10,000 already!)
  • semi-resolve the conflict between the two currently main male characters
  • begin inner conflict with main character
  • reach the start of the scene where the last 'big player' is introduced

Day Five Goals

  • break the day seven word goal of 11,666 or no lunch!
  • semi-resolve the conflict between two of the characters
  • begin inner conflict with main character
  • FINISH the scene where our last big player is introduced
  • Break 13,000 by the end of the day
Day Five will accept no survivors, all goals must be slaughtered before sleep!

I'll try to write up the day five summary today, but I make no promises. I have words to slay.