flexing the creative mussel
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the_siobhanThe NaNoWriMo site posted a link to the Fantasy Name Generator. I requested a gender-neutral name and got this:
That's... actually better than I could come up with on my own.
Observations about how the Resolution: Write an Entire Book thing is going.
I'm hoping that continued regular practice will make me faster. Also, I plan to use NaNoWriMo as incentive to write more often during the week. Even if I only manage to squeeze in two dedicated sessions per day over the weekends, that should knock three-four months off the length of the project. I also booked the first week of August for vacation from work, and since I figure we're too broke to go anywhere I can use that time to do the final push to the finish line.
Then I fully expect I won't want to even look at the bloody thing for months.
Then revisions.
Then letting people read and critique it while I hide under the bed and hyperventilate.
So looking at all that written down makes me think that maybe getting it done this year is overly ambitious. I dunno. Out of pure curiosity (ahem) how long does this process take other people?
Your fantasy name is: Shea Divinegate. Protector of the Obscure Savannah S/he began her/his journey as a witty carpenter. S/he made her/his way to the Obscure Savannah after many disasters, one of which involved a pessimistic vampire and an accident-prone dragon.
That's... actually better than I could come up with on my own.
Observations about how the Resolution: Write an Entire Book thing is going.
- Getting out of the house with my laptop is definitely a thing that works for getting me to actually write.
- Meeting up with other people to do writing is definitely a thing that works for getting me to leave the house.
- Two hours is about as much creativity I can manage at a single stretch.
- I can pump out about 1000 words in those two hours, give or take.
- The NaNoWriMo target is 50,000 words, but I think this story is going to be a lot longer - it will probably land somewhere around 75-80 K.
- If I can only get out of the house once a week, that means it's going to take me about a year and half to finish this puppy.
I'm hoping that continued regular practice will make me faster. Also, I plan to use NaNoWriMo as incentive to write more often during the week. Even if I only manage to squeeze in two dedicated sessions per day over the weekends, that should knock three-four months off the length of the project. I also booked the first week of August for vacation from work, and since I figure we're too broke to go anywhere I can use that time to do the final push to the finish line.
Then I fully expect I won't want to even look at the bloody thing for months.
Then revisions.
Then letting people read and critique it while I hide under the bed and hyperventilate.
So looking at all that written down makes me think that maybe getting it done this year is overly ambitious. I dunno. Out of pure curiosity (ahem) how long does this process take other people?