Great interview. I love your interviews and podcasts. Plus your accent is fun to listen to. I have self published my book this year and will do NaNoWriMo this year.
This was the video I needed! I've been planning to write for 2 months and nothing is done. This challenge is exactly what I need to get me started and help accountable. I will begin planning today so I am ready to begin 11/1! Thank you for this video!
Great interview! So much encouragement and info. I will definitely be doing this this year. I remember last year I had actually just written a 50,000 word novel in October and only heard about nanowrimo the next month and was disappointed I hadn't waited a month to do it. Felt kind of left out, lol.
Great tips! I really enjoyed this video. His editing process is like Hemingway and mine. I am using the same editing process on my how to book. I disagree with you always lose alot of the words when editing. Having good writing education and writing at a steady pace with focus, cuts back on how much editing you will need. Some of my award winning poems barely needed any revision. If you paint with objects and use literary devices on the first draft and have an outline, you will not have much editing. If you struggle with using metaphor and don't have an outline, then the editing process will be hell. I spend 5 minutes on social media a day and just for promoting and passing on some information to improve life. When I stopped being on social media for things unrelated to my writing, I was able to finish at least 60% of 3 book. In about 3 weeks at most, all three book will be done. 😊
I've done nano and the camps - where you can put in your own word total - I did 90k one camp - I find that it gives me a tiny amount of separation - enough to think the target is not set by me and I work so hard to hit it. Whatever *shrugs* it works for me. I should do camp in July to edit my latest rough first draft... hmmm 100 word fics are called 'drabbles' in fanfiction but they must be exactly 100.
I only like to know about 10% of what I am writing about, before I write it. I create alot of my outline as I write the work. I am a Pushcart Nominated poet and the poem they chose I only new about 80% of what I was going to write about. I don't need training to be a writer because my subciousness is trained to believe I am suppose to be. Life Coach Bob proctor. I do not do word count writing, I base how much I have done on whether it can fit on two index cards at least. It's not about how fast you get the novel first draft done, it is about I love every part of the writing process because I am very educated in my genre. It always amazes when people amplify the MFA degree, like that automatically is the proof that a writer is super good at writing. All the degrees in the world can not teach you how to make yourself a writing genuis, even my mentor told me to I show signs according to Aristotle, and alot of famous writers never got an MFA. I am a writing genuis and I never got an MFA. I do not struggle in writing lines for my work, I just don't. I have yearly success in writing. If you sit there in on sitting trying to perfect your work, that is why it is not happening. You need alot of distance from your 1st drafts and to not think of them for a while before you return to them.
I haven't written in a long time but when I started up again recently I got to the 1500 word a day mark within a week without much effort (I also tend to edit and revise as I write, so that slows me down, but lowers my workload afterwards). My goal right now is upping that to around 4000, so I can create a nice backlog of stuff to begin editing / publishing. Biggest thing holding me back so far from that goal is lack of focus, lately I've let myself start reading up on all the political crap going on and it just winds up making me angry and watch / reading more which draws away from writing. :(
Sweet, I'm averaging 500 - 1000 when I write but its the motivation to put bum in chair to write which hinders me. I'm the king of procrastination. My aim is get approximately 5000 - 10000 a week. Not necessarily a daily word count.
Yea, it's easier to hit those counts if you give yourself deadlines too, procrastination's a killer though (which is where the deadlines really come in handy) , so maybe if setting personal goals you find is still to easy to procrastinate, find a contest or something and aim for that. I just know whenever i have to get something done, or set personal goals i feel guilty if i don't reach them lol.
Thing about the 50k a month is that requires that 1667 a day as Daniel said, and that doesn't seem hard, until you realize that's 30 days straight...I average 2500-4000 a day when I write, but I lack the focus and procrastinate too and end up with a lot less than 50k a month...I've done Nanowrimo and won, but it was a huge challenge!
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I love Joanna's laugh. So genuine.
Thanks - I enjoy my work :)
Great interview. I love your interviews and podcasts. Plus your accent is fun to listen to. I have self published my book this year and will do NaNoWriMo this year.
This was the video I needed! I've been planning to write for 2 months and nothing is done. This challenge is exactly what I need to get me started and help accountable. I will begin planning today so I am ready to begin 11/1! Thank you for this video!
Great :) NaNoWriMo is super helpful!
I love Joanna's accent :)
Great interview! So much encouragement and info. I will definitely be doing this this year.
I remember last year I had actually just written a 50,000 word novel in October and only heard about nanowrimo the next month and was disappointed I hadn't waited a month to do it. Felt kind of left out, lol.
Great tips! I really enjoyed this video. His editing process is like Hemingway and mine. I am using the same editing process on my how to book. I disagree with you always lose alot of the words when editing. Having good writing education and writing at a steady pace with focus, cuts back on how much editing you will need. Some of my award winning poems barely needed any revision. If you paint with objects and use literary devices on the first draft and have an outline, you will not have much editing. If you struggle with using metaphor and don't have an outline, then the editing process will be hell. I spend 5 minutes on social media a day and just for promoting and passing on some information to improve life. When I stopped being on social media for things unrelated to my writing, I was able to finish at least 60% of 3 book. In about 3 weeks at most, all three book will be done. 😊
I've done nano and the camps - where you can put in your own word total - I did 90k one camp - I find that it gives me a tiny amount of separation - enough to think the target is not set by me and I work so hard to hit it. Whatever *shrugs* it works for me.
I should do camp in July to edit my latest rough first draft... hmmm
100 word fics are called 'drabbles' in fanfiction but they must be exactly 100.
I just found out about drabbles!
I only like to know about 10% of what I am writing about, before I write it. I create alot of my outline as I write the work. I am a Pushcart Nominated poet and the poem they chose I only new about 80% of what I was going to write about. I don't need training to be a writer because my subciousness is trained to believe I am suppose to be. Life Coach Bob proctor.
I do not do word count writing, I base how much I have done on whether it can fit on two index cards at least. It's not about how fast you get the novel first draft done, it is about
I love every part of the writing process because I am very educated in my genre.
It always amazes when people amplify the MFA degree, like that automatically is the proof that a writer is super good at writing. All the degrees in the world can not teach you how to make yourself a writing genuis, even my mentor told me to I show signs according to Aristotle, and alot of famous writers never got an MFA. I am a writing genuis and I never got an MFA. I do not struggle in writing lines for my work, I just don't. I have yearly success in writing. If you sit there in on sitting trying to perfect your work, that is why it is not happening. You need alot of distance from your 1st drafts and to not think of them for a while before you return to them.
Very motivating. Concerned quality won't be great if I had a go
That's why you edit the month after :)
watching this for NaNoWriMo inspiration in 2018. Thank you!
Pretober is important for NaNoWriMo.
I did this in a week
You're a machine!
Thank you for that! The Novel is almost complete! Not even a month in!
I subscribed to your channel! This is my first novel. It is insane!
What does NaNoWriMo stand for? You never actually say it in the video.
National Novel Writing Month 😜
50'000 words in a month? That seems like a pretty low bar to shoot for.
That's roughly 1666 a day. What's your monthly target?
I haven't written in a long time but when I started up again recently I got to the 1500 word a day mark within a week without much effort (I also tend to edit and revise as I write, so that slows me down, but lowers my workload afterwards). My goal right now is upping that to around 4000, so I can create a nice backlog of stuff to begin editing / publishing. Biggest thing holding me back so far from that goal is lack of focus, lately I've let myself start reading up on all the political crap going on and it just winds up making me angry and watch / reading more which draws away from writing. :(
Sweet, I'm averaging 500 - 1000 when I write but its the motivation to put bum in chair to write which hinders me. I'm the king of procrastination. My aim is get approximately 5000 - 10000 a week. Not necessarily a daily word count.
Yea, it's easier to hit those counts if you give yourself deadlines too, procrastination's a killer though (which is where the deadlines really come in handy) , so maybe if setting personal goals you find is still to easy to procrastinate, find a contest or something and aim for that. I just know whenever i have to get something done, or set personal goals i feel guilty if i don't reach them lol.
Thing about the 50k a month is that requires that 1667 a day as Daniel said, and that doesn't seem hard, until you realize that's 30 days straight...I average 2500-4000 a day when I write, but I lack the focus and procrastinate too and end up with a lot less than 50k a month...I've done Nanowrimo and won, but it was a huge challenge!