Comments on: Writing update, October edition http://www.stonetable.org/2009/10/05/writing-update-october-edition/ An economy of words Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:17:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Adam http://www.stonetable.org/2009/10/05/writing-update-october-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-1210 Adam Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:26:48 +0000 http://www.stonetable.org/?p=605#comment-1210 That's one thing I want to get out of the NaNo experience. I feel like I'm writing my short fiction <em>too</em> tight, at times. Or I'll rush the story because I want to get to the end and what's left feels incomplete. I'm getting better about it, but one argument for NaNo is that by writing with that larger goal, where the 50,000 mark is really only the halfway mark, I'll be less likely to hurry the story and more concentrating on putting it all down on paper. I'd like to be more cutter, less filling-iner. That’s one thing I want to get out of the NaNo experience. I feel like I’m writing my short fiction too tight, at times. Or I’ll rush the story because I want to get to the end and what’s left feels incomplete. I’m getting better about it, but one argument for NaNo is that by writing with that larger goal, where the 50,000 mark is really only the halfway mark, I’ll be less likely to hurry the story and more concentrating on putting it all down on paper. I’d like to be more cutter, less filling-iner.

]]> By: Jenn http://www.stonetable.org/2009/10/05/writing-update-october-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-1209 Jenn Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:13:31 +0000 http://www.stonetable.org/?p=605#comment-1209 It looks like, if all goes according to plan, you'll come out of October with a nice body of completed work. I have done NaNoWriMo eight times now and I think it's a good exercise for short fiction writers who want to move into a longer form. We're so used to compressing and squeezing the most out of every word that it almost takes something like NaNo to give ourselves permission to let go and open up for something as big as a novel. It looks like, if all goes according to plan, you’ll come out of October with a nice body of completed work.

I have done NaNoWriMo eight times now and I think it’s a good exercise for short fiction writers who want to move into a longer form. We’re so used to compressing and squeezing the most out of every word that it almost takes something like NaNo to give ourselves permission to let go and open up for something as big as a novel.

]]>