{"id":2893,"date":"2010-11-06T23:27:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T22:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2010-11-07T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T15:03:09","slug":"nanowrimo-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/06\/nanowrimo-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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That’s the face NaNoWriMo participants have when they catch up with their word count. <\/em><\/p>\n

So I have not written here for a couple days. I have still not given up the “novel writing month” thing, although I have considered it. There are days that are more and days that are less productive, due sometimes to inspiration and sometimes to limitations of the body. As usual, I over-used my voice (with Dragon NaturallySpeaking dictation software) and had to shut up for a bit. And as usual, I over-used my wrist.<\/p>\n

I am approximately on track with my first novel (Shadow of Yggdrasil). The other three are lagging, though. \u00c2\u00a0I guess my strategy works in the sense that I have kept writing something each day, sometimes more and sometimes less. And at the moment it seems to be paying off, in that I have returned to my main novel with new ideas.<\/p>\n

The structure of the novel is kind of fractal, as usual for such beasts. There is the book, there are chapters, and there are scenes. Kind of like a tree with branches and twigs? \u00c2\u00a0Now the problem is that I only know the general shape of the tree and a very few of the branches, and the twigs on the first branch, when I start.<\/p>\n

So what happens is that I return and there is a new branch, or new twigs. As if they have grown out by themselves in the meantime. But pulling on a branch does not cause more twigs. My writing is more like gardening than anything else I can think of. It requires time, but if I have the time, I can plant a bunch of little plants and they all grow up over time, given enough attention.<\/p>\n

Your writing may vary, so be yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s the face NaNoWriMo participants have when they catch up with their word count. So I have not written here for a couple days. I have still not given up the “novel writing month” thing, although I have considered it. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}