But in a nutshell, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month in which you must write 50000 of what normally turns out to be trash unless you're not me in the 30 days and 30 nights of November.
But it's AFTER NaNo (even shorter form of National Novel Writing Month) that I want to rant talk about.
By the end of November 30, 2011, I had 50000-ish words sitting on my hard drive. They called to me, "Come fix us, we promise it will be easy this time. It won't be anything like 2010, when you didn't get anywhere because you had never even finished a story before, nevermind written a whole novel."
Well, those little sirens were somewhat right. It was still hard but I actually got somewhere- am still getting somewhere- because I attacked the monstrosity differently, er, I looked at it differently.
My revision process went something like this.
Sleep
Read
Cry
Write rough outline
Delete unnecessary bits
Read
Write what parts of plot need to be tinkered with
Fix parts of plot that need to be tinkered with
Read
Add extra bits while separating Monstrosity into chapters (I used Scrivener which made this easy)
Edit and make it sound beautiful
Read
Edit some more
Make beautiful
PDF it and self-publish it (I received a coupon from NaNo)
While this was easier than 2010 (read, edit edit edit, did not work at all for me) I was wondering if anyone has any revision process that I can steal be inspired from. Any takers?
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