Nanowrimo without novel or nanowrimo
It's november. You know what that means. Nanowrimo.
I have never joined nanowrimo, I didn't even know they were a real life org until some days ago. They apparently fell to the AI hype or something, and are no longer existing, I don't really care.
But this thing of writing a novel in a moth is something I have tried for a while. I never succeeded in completing them because after the first three days I always lost control of the story.
Besides. It was not fun to write. I like more the idea of being a-month a-novel writer rather than being the kind of person that manages to pull of such a feat. I feel pure respect for all of you folks.
But then again, I was approaching this from the wrong angle. For a start, I like writing. I write a lot of throwaway notes in my daily life. It's not really thinking to write, it's writing to think. I do enjoy the main skill of the a-month-a-novel event: Writing. Surely this formula is just doing something that throws me out of my element instead.
You will notice that my method of writing is very much scatterbrain. This is normal. What I hate is the part that elevates the text. Editing.
Look. Not like I hate editing. But my method of editing should be additive and iterative. If I were to write a novel with pen and paper, I would very much prefer to write on the same page over and over again until a novel it's there. You get it?
But then again, this is not true either. Because a sentence leads to the next sentence. And if I rewrite one part, then it's only logical to rewrite the next parts. And I just hate having one part wrong.
Where I'm going is, I must learn to let mistakes be. At least for a while. I will have the time to come back later, I know. But my brain works like popcorn, something goes pop in one place and everything around goes pop and now I can't keep writing the story I was about to write.
(I just hate writing long texts)
So. This nanowrimo the only limit I will put myself is to write the equivalent of a thousand and five hundred words per day. In a GDD (A game design document) for a game I'm currently working on. This can be done in (almost) any order I want. And It's easy enough to reiterate over and over again because a gdd has less consecutive parts than a novel, so I can more safely work in one part without having to rework all that comes next. Because most content lives side by side.
Besides. It's fun! I had a lot of fun doing these when I was in school. I just forgot how to have fun with them. This is as good a chance as any other to remember how to have fun with this.
I always liked the nanowrimo thing. For the wrong reasons. Sure. But the part I remember the most is reading whatever people wrote and published. It was bad. But it had the quality of something done basically out of thin air. It's a creation. It got out of someone's head. I don't have any opinion or thought on whatever state is the org nanowrimo or the community. But I loved the fact that it got people into creating things. I'm a selfish person, I hope you also write so I can read more of those bad creations. I will contribute with a bad creation too. Once it's over.