I didn't know you had one either, so at least it's mutual :-)
I managed to write 56000 words with a few days to spare last year, so I'll be a bit disappointed if I can't do it this year too. After all, the point is just to get the words out, not that they have to be any good...
Though you had more of a valid excuse since I'm hiding under my porny pseud *g*
I've never got the point of the quantity over quality thing. Doesn't the world have enough lousy fiction already without encouraging more? Not that I imagine yours is lousy, 'cos you could only manage that if you deliberately tried, but the stated intentions of the thing just leave me a bit puzzled. Yes, people can edit it later, but there's only so much you can do with something that sucked to start with.
It's exercise. Training. If you can, for a time, make yourself not worry so much over every word in every sentence, you can practice getting the feel for larger-scale structure and character personality building and such. DIfferently put, when you don't care so much about every leaf of every branch of every tree it's easier to get a feel for what the forest is like.
I guess I can understand that approach to it, yeah. Hmmm... Most of that stuff goes on in my head, I think, before I ever sit down to write. But then my fics aren't 50,000 words long *g*
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Date: 2004-11-08 09:10 am (UTC)You're the only person I know who's actually ahead in word count, so that's a real achievement!
Yes, you do know me from B7 fandom, though not under this name. I'm the Louise who associates with Tom, not a weird stalker person.
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Date: 2004-11-08 09:17 am (UTC)I managed to write 56000 words with a few days to spare last year, so I'll be a bit disappointed if I can't do it this year too. After all, the point is just to get the words out, not that they have to be any good...
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Date: 2004-11-08 09:33 am (UTC)I've never got the point of the quantity over quality thing. Doesn't the world have enough lousy fiction already without encouraging more? Not that I imagine yours is lousy, 'cos you could only manage that if you deliberately tried, but the stated intentions of the thing just leave me a bit puzzled. Yes, people can edit it later, but there's only so much you can do with something that sucked to start with.
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Date: 2004-11-08 10:14 am (UTC)At least that's what it's like for me.
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Date: 2004-11-08 03:27 pm (UTC)