Today is odd. On the one hand I feel as though the story is coming together a lot better now. Nought to novel (OK, novel outline) in a week isn't so bad. On the other hand, I had a telephone interview for another tutoring job today and felt like a total, blithering idiot by the end of it. There is no hardship if I don't get this job, but it's an easy one, and was an easy interview, really, I just didn't anticipate the questions well enough and floundered right at the end when I should have been sewing the whole thing up nicely and exchanging pleasantries. What a bummer.
OK... haven't got my word count today yet, and seem to have ended up leaving it until late in the evening every day.... got to get back to it. Felt good, now I don't. *sigh*
... time passes ...
Right, that's better, I've reached my word count and beyond. I managed a couple of thousand words on the story alongside a couple of thousand of text chat words which were about the story, plot development and a number of jokes and scenarios to include in the story, so I've also pasted in some stuff in my notes section. I thought that this was cheating when I began this a week ago, but have just realised that I am skipping over lots of valuable dialogue and discussion of the story this way, when I could actually take the material on board. It's certainly ironed out a few problems this evening. I definitely won't have a proper or complete story by the end of this month, but I feel a lot more certain that I will have met the word limit and fleshed out the makings of a good story (with my own words, written during the course of the month - no cheating there!)
The past eight days have already taught me some interesting things about the writing process which A215 certainly did not do. It isn't as difficult as I had imagined to leave the 'inner editor' behind, although in the past I have never edited that much. However, my approach has always been to think a lot about what I am going to write, and then to write it, pretty much as I want it to be. I couldn't get to grips with the freewriting method in A215, even though freewriting in itself does not seem to present too many problems. Freewriting on an industrial scale is a lot more challenging, but also a lot more beneficial, from my perspective.
I hope that I can motivate myself to do this every year!
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