Genrewonk

November 30, 2010

Well I did it (go me!), 50K words in a month.  This is a task I’ve manged before, but never as a conscious act.  Before, the few times I’ve been this productive, I’ve had a muse with a whip chasing me.  This time I literally started completely cold.  All I had was an idea that occurred to me on Oct 31, so I had no outlines laying about, no long-deferred story ideas that had been waiting for me.  Thirty days later, I have fifty-thousand words, most of which I think are usable in some form.

Some things I might cut;  dream sequences I wrote to get out of a block (though their back-story might survive a rewrite) and the smoking hot sex scene that may be out of place in a YA novel.

Now I let it cool for a bit and go on to a proposal I was working on before I started this.  After that’s to bed, I think I may go back and finish this thing, once I outline the second half of it.

Category: writing