Well when I was doing Nanowrimo I was really enjoying a deep and symbolic story that was going way too slow to complete on time. I hemmed and hawed about trying to force it faster and got nowhere. Then on thanksgiving I decided to do a back up story to see where that went. Well the back up was done in nine days. Ending just on the other side of 50k with areas of story that I kindof glossed over and that I need to go back and expand a bit. The original story I need to get back into ended with 26k under it's belt.
Both started with no outline and a basic premiss. Basically each had a name and one or two sentences that covered the idea.
I'm thinking that if I research format styles for each type now,pick seven to twelve ideas from my journals (that's why I'm so ambitious with some of this stuff, I've got journals of stuff I've been keeping for years that I may not get to all of them before I die, but I'm going to try) and start one out the first day. If I've gotten stumped or peter out on one at any point I'll go immediately to another.
Sitting at a computer for 4-5 hours a day is hard on me, but if I can pull 5 pages an hour that would do it. No TV (not much on these days anyway), I can't eat out with my illness anyway. The only thing I have to worry about is family events (not much going on in april anyway), work (they've cut my hours so much lately that it's almost a joke), errands (once a week for a few hours) and the dreaded health problems, and procrastination/writers block.
So with outlines to work from beforehand I hope to curb the last two, and the ability to switch from one to the other as needed should help too. The health problems may be my biggest hurdle, as I use public access net labs for this. If I'm sick I can't make it here. But Seeing as the needed to win is only 100 pages, as long as I get 1/5 of my work into the computer it counts as a win. I can hand do the rest in a notebook, sick or not. I can cram session on weekends (I get long weekends, cut hours and all). I have a few other projects that I'm doing for Big Fun Scary Challenge this year that are going to gobble some usable writing time.
The maze a day, design a card a month, design an origami a month. I'll just have to hurry and getthe last two out of the way at the start. The maze eats about 20-40 mins to design but that might be useful as a break from the script drive.
The rest of my goals for the challenge are things I can postpone till Screnzy is over, as they are done once and that by the end of the year.
And the best part is that at the end, even if I didn't do five scripts all the way through, just completeing one means I win. The high from that (if it's anything like the high from Nano) should carry me long enough to polish off som of my BFSC goals in the following month and maybe go back and finish, expand, edit my nanos. All before summer comes and I have to worry about another job and my big expenses.
I'm really jazzed about this now. I've got to pick some ideas from my notbooks, and begin the outlines in the next week here. Then I prep for taking care of those things that Need to be done for the month so as to minimise the distractions. Maybe grab some cheap notepads and warn family off while I'm at it.
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