That Was Interesting
Nov. 1st, 2010 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_goren_showSo I went to the NanoWriMo kickoff event last night and wrote from midnight to 2 am in a truck stop with a bunch of other NaNo writers. I have to say I feel strangely let down. If I was supposed to be excited by the event, I apparently failed at that. It was nice, but it was definitely a social occasion and it was not conducive to my writing style.
At all.
I write best when left the hell alone to dive into the world I am visualizing. This is not accomplished in any way in a room full of 25 or 30 strangers, some of whom are not even writing (NaNo adjacents I think they call them). I was amused and then annoyed with some of the people there, felt more pressure than was necessary and the quality of my writing... well, if it was a RP post I would have been apologizing like hell for being so damned far off my game. I know you are not supposed to worry about editing during the NaNo event but I am going to have to edit it if I am going to be able to go anywhere with it from here. It's not just crap, it's pure unadulterated shit and I am less than pleased with it.
Should I have gone to the event? Hell yes. It was good to get out and find out who my comrades in insanity are and I need to get out more anyway.
Will I go to another one? Prossibly, but I sure won't expect to do any quality first draft writing. I will also shore up my fragile ego against the people who can type three times the number of words I can during Word Wars.
I did get the first part of the story out of my head and accomplished my daily word count at least despite the distractions, so that's something.
At all.
I write best when left the hell alone to dive into the world I am visualizing. This is not accomplished in any way in a room full of 25 or 30 strangers, some of whom are not even writing (NaNo adjacents I think they call them). I was amused and then annoyed with some of the people there, felt more pressure than was necessary and the quality of my writing... well, if it was a RP post I would have been apologizing like hell for being so damned far off my game. I know you are not supposed to worry about editing during the NaNo event but I am going to have to edit it if I am going to be able to go anywhere with it from here. It's not just crap, it's pure unadulterated shit and I am less than pleased with it.
Should I have gone to the event? Hell yes. It was good to get out and find out who my comrades in insanity are and I need to get out more anyway.
Will I go to another one? Prossibly, but I sure won't expect to do any quality first draft writing. I will also shore up my fragile ego against the people who can type three times the number of words I can during Word Wars.
I did get the first part of the story out of my head and accomplished my daily word count at least despite the distractions, so that's something.
