Saturday, November 29, 2008

Things I learned this year in nano....

1) Just because the first week rocks on toast doesn't mean the rest of the words won't come very slowly. Granted, Real Life involved itself, but it was still rather surprising.

2) Do not plan to write 22 years of someone's life as a nano ever, ever again.

3) First person with a cast of over 80 == stupid.

4) Two nano in a month may happen again next year; I just end up having idea A and B and C come screaming along; I ignored them this year, but did a lot of plot stuff for them in 2 notebooks when I could have been working on nano.

5) Do not try to run rpg sessions even once a week during nano. The focus is gone.

6) Starting to do plot stuff in September does not work. A 12K file on the nano seems good until you realize less than 1K of it was actually an outline of the plot :)

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