lizvogel: Banana: Good.  Crossed streams: Bad. (Good Bad)
I never did post my NaNo results, did I?

Well, my modified, revised, and thoroughly laid-back goal was simply to get Lightning Strikes Twice moving again. I did the first 50K of it in NaNo 2018, dropped it like a hot rock on November 30th, and hadn't touched it since. (I started 2018's NaNo already burned out, which was not the brightest move ever.) So getting it booted up again in my brain was an undertaking in its own right.

And... success! Of a sort, anyway. I re-read the prequel, re-read the book-so-far, solved a couple of minor obstacles, and wrote 3910 new words. Not a lot by NaNo standards, but enough to count as revivifying the beast. That got me up to the next major scene break -- at which point it was a bit like having to start the book all over again, but that's been December's challenge.

So, I call win. Yay!

NaNoWriMo 2020

Saturday, October 31st, 2020 08:57 pm
lizvogel: Banana: Good.  Crossed streams: Bad. (Good Bad)
I seem to have committed myself to doing NaNo this year. Not the full 50,000, however. I need to finish Lightning Strikes Twice, which got its 50K in 2018 and I haven't touched it -- or, let's be honest, much else writing-wise -- since. But LST doesn't need another 50K to be finished (I hope), even if that were a reasonable target for somebody as out of practice as I am.

I was thinking 20,000 words would be a reasonable goal for the month. Not enough to finish the book, but a substantial chunk along the way.

Before I can start writing, however, I still need to finish re-reading ...And The Kitchen Sink to refresh it all in my head, and then re-read the 50,000 words extant of Lightning. That's something like 80,000 words remaining to be read in the next few hours, and, well, I'm a fast reader, but not that fast. I could try to crash through it as fast as possible, foregoing sleep, but that's not going to leave me in any state to do good work. So I'm going to chill. I'll get the re-reading done, and when it's done I'll start writing, and we'll just see where we go from there.

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