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amatyultareTodays' NaNoWriMo was written entirely while listening to Muse's 'Supermassive Black Hole' and AFI's 'Miss Murder' on repeat. Just so you know.
LOOK DON'T JUDGE ME.
I had a sort of freak-out, oh-crap-this-is-a-terrible-pretense-of-a-book moment earlier this evening, when I realized that I had finished half of what I wanted to accomplish in chapter 9...but chapter 9 had all of 600 words.
However, when I finally started writing (after several hours of panic-induced procrastination), I realized that the other 'half' of the chapter was regarding my subplot, which is about college theater craziness. And I can write a LOT about college theater craziness.
Let me also take this moment to pimp out something that a NaNoer mentioned on the forums and that I used to write the entirety of tonight's NaNo production in about an hour and a half. I highly, highly recommend it if you ever need to write a draft of something quickly and/or are having trouble motivating yourself to write or concentrating.
My friends, I give you Write or Die.
The premise: put in how many words you want to write, and in what timeframe. Then hit 'write' and you'll be brought to a screen with a text box. The time counts down and wordcount is updated as you write. Also, if you stop typing for more than a few seconds, there are consequences - from a pop-up reminder (gentle) to your words actually being deleted (kamikaze). I am not totally sure if the 'punishments' work on Safari, but it really doesn't matter; the combination of the blank text-entry screen, the timer, the word count, the limited timeframe and goal are wonderful for pushing you to actually write.
I met my personal goal for tonight (after falling asleep after less than 1,000 words again last night). Yay!
Current word count: 34,112
And now, bed at last.
LOOK DON'T JUDGE ME.
I had a sort of freak-out, oh-crap-this-is-a-terrible-pretense-of-a-book moment earlier this evening, when I realized that I had finished half of what I wanted to accomplish in chapter 9...but chapter 9 had all of 600 words.
However, when I finally started writing (after several hours of panic-induced procrastination), I realized that the other 'half' of the chapter was regarding my subplot, which is about college theater craziness. And I can write a LOT about college theater craziness.
Let me also take this moment to pimp out something that a NaNoer mentioned on the forums and that I used to write the entirety of tonight's NaNo production in about an hour and a half. I highly, highly recommend it if you ever need to write a draft of something quickly and/or are having trouble motivating yourself to write or concentrating.
My friends, I give you Write or Die.
The premise: put in how many words you want to write, and in what timeframe. Then hit 'write' and you'll be brought to a screen with a text box. The time counts down and wordcount is updated as you write. Also, if you stop typing for more than a few seconds, there are consequences - from a pop-up reminder (gentle) to your words actually being deleted (kamikaze). I am not totally sure if the 'punishments' work on Safari, but it really doesn't matter; the combination of the blank text-entry screen, the timer, the word count, the limited timeframe and goal are wonderful for pushing you to actually write.
I met my personal goal for tonight (after falling asleep after less than 1,000 words again last night). Yay!
Current word count: 34,112
And now, bed at last.
