Redux

I paused my rewrite because I found, as I always find when I take a stab at NaNoWriMo that: a) I don’t really have enough time to burn in November (I need about 50 hours to write 50,000 words); b) The more I write on something, the more I realize that the constraints of NaNoWriMo—50,000 words, one month—are insufficient to write anything worth reading (for me anyway).

Going back over what I had written, however, I wasn’t displeased. It’s rough, obviously and needs to be polished, but I am going to carry on, filling in the blanks and figuring out a few of the blank spots.

I think the first freedom I’m going to take is to not try to follow the original structure. It’s too intensely “All Adam” followed by “All Edgar” followed by “whatever”. But the novel will work a lot better if we rotate between the characters.

Weirdly, when I pulled the document it up, it needed to be restored and the 5K+ words I’d written to wrap everything up were gone. Which sucks. I hope maybe they’ll turn up on the other machine. (Update: Checked and did find them, so, yay.)

One year I’ll take November off and see if I can put together a decent novel in 30 days, full time.