NaNo Analysis: Time To Completion
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelOne of the reasons I did NaNo was to try to increase my writing speed, and one of the reasons I want to increase my writing speed is that it takes me so long to get through a book that I get incredibly bored with a story long before I finish it. There's usually a cry of "oh god, isn't this done yet?!?" at about the two-thirds point, and possibly a less agonized but more ennui-filled one at about one-third of the way through. Write faster, thinks I, and I should be able to get through a book before that hits.
Last night, I realized I've been dragging around whining, "oh god, can it just be done now?!?" about Kitchen Sink... and it's right about at the two-thirds point. Only it's been six weeks, not three years. Interestingly, Week 3 of NaNo, which was when I really hit the I'm-not-having-fun-any-more wall, was about one-third through the likely eventual length of the story.
So it seems this may not be a time-based phenomenon at all, as I thought it was. It may simply be a function of the story flow, and my immersion in the story. Which is not entirely welcome news, as it means there's not a lot I can do to avert it. But if I know going in that this is just part of the process, maybe I can soldier on through it with more steadfastness and less wanting to run screaming in the other direction. ;-)
Last night, I realized I've been dragging around whining, "oh god, can it just be done now?!?" about Kitchen Sink... and it's right about at the two-thirds point. Only it's been six weeks, not three years. Interestingly, Week 3 of NaNo, which was when I really hit the I'm-not-having-fun-any-more wall, was about one-third through the likely eventual length of the story.
So it seems this may not be a time-based phenomenon at all, as I thought it was. It may simply be a function of the story flow, and my immersion in the story. Which is not entirely welcome news, as it means there's not a lot I can do to avert it. But if I know going in that this is just part of the process, maybe I can soldier on through it with more steadfastness and less wanting to run screaming in the other direction. ;-)
