Off the Cuff / My Other Journal

Nano Schedule

Finally!
I am gaining my calm back.

Good thing is I am not scared of Nano anymore, now that the plot and the characters have formed -somewhat- inside my head. I have done all the research I thought I might need. What is left is to write 1167 words a day, according to the book by Chris Baty, No Plot? No Problem, which I found in the library.

I don't think I'll have difficulty, sticking to a schedule. I may not do the amount of words exactly like what is on that schedule, but I may write less or more. I hope I have the discipline acquired over the two and half years of writing or rather trying to write 500 words or more each day. Plus, I went through Wannabe's challenges and found out I could write even 2500 words a day, although not every day.

For Nano, I plan to come up with the 50,000 a few days before the end of the month. You never know what can go wrong if you leave it to the end. So, I'll try to write 1800 words a day or more, even though I may have days that I won't be able to write anything.

Having said that, I decided not to rush me, but to take each problem and each day as it comes, and even look through the day's work for outstanding mistakes. The holes in the plot or whatever I may need to add will have to come later. I think this plot will probably take 30,000 words more.

This plot came out of a character sketch for a short story contest. Although the character in that short story will be a secondary one in the novel, I plan to improve on her even more.

My problem is with the main character. I think, at this point, I'm wavering between two main characters, something I didn't intend to come up with, but having two main characters has been done before by better writers than me, so I'll just let the story take its course, and possibly, the main character problem will resolve itself through the evolution of the plot or I'll handle it afterwards.

If anyone is interested, here is the number of words for each day from No Plot? No Problem.

Day 1 -- 1667
Day 2 -- 3334
Day 3 -- 5001
Day 4 -- 6668
Day 5 -- 8335
Day 6 -- 10,002
Day 7 -- 11,669
Day 8 -- 13,336
Day 9 -- 15,003
Day10 -- 16,670
Day11 -- 18,337
Day12 -- 20,004
Day13 -- 21,671
Day14 -- 23,338
Day15 -- 25,005
Day16 -- 26,672
Day17 -- 28,339
Day18 -- 30,006
Day19 -- 31,673
Day20 -- 33,340
Day21 -- 35,007
Day22 -- 36,674
Day23 -- 38,341
Day24 -- 40,008
Day25 -- 41,675
Day26 -- 43,342
Day27 -- 45,009
Day28 -- 48,343
Day29 -- 48,343
Day30 -- 50,000