{"id":1807,"date":"2009-11-04T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T20:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2009-11-29T20:55:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T02:55:55","slug":"nanowrimo-biting-and-sucking-oooh-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/nanowrimo-biting-and-sucking-oooh-yeah\/","title":{"rendered":"#NaNoWriMo: Biting and Sucking are fun, Oooh yeah."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just a quick post today. By tomorrow, you’re going to actually know where the story is going for, like, the first time, and we’re going to talk about that, but for today? Quick post.<\/p>\n

You’re writing crap.<\/p>\n

Yes, you’re biting that elephant to death, but in another very real way you are, as the kids say, “biting it.”<\/p>\n

And that’s okay. There’s a freedom and joy in the first draft, because the stuff you’re writing, you’re writing for YOU, and if it sounds horrible the second time you read it, that’s fine, because at least during the process of getting it down on paper, it was awesome.<\/p>\n

It brought you joy.<\/p>\n

It was play, and sometimes the result of play is dirt and stained clothes and sand in your bathing suit area that will take a week to get out. <\/p>\n

We have a lot of sand in our bathing suit area right now, don’t we?<\/p>\n

So… let’s see it! (Not the bathing suit area. Eww.) Hop into the comments and trot out the most overwritten chunk of text you’ve dumped on the screen so far. I wanna see!<\/p>\n

And, just to prime the well, here’s one of MANY POSSIBLE EXAMPLES from Adrift.<\/p>\n

The Drift — what little of it I could see of from our vantage point — was the same as I remember: a vast patchwork quilt of mismatched metal; multi-millennia-deep piles of ships welded into a moon-sized satellite that predates any written history to which anyone from Caliban has access. It’s unsteady orbit – the source of its name – circled an otherwise unremarkable star on the border between what the Concordant Navy called ‘controlled space’ and the Remnants; a location that attracted any number of unsavory Remnant species, vagabonds, vagrants, traders, beggers, mercenaries, killers, crime lords, and those too unlucky to get away from them. It was a huge, dead, beast’s carcass infested throughout by millions of parasites and scavengers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I picked this paragraph at random.<\/p>\n

Just… for fun… try to count the times I switch between present and past tense. And forget about all the needless exposition. Sweet jumpin’ Jesus.<\/p>\n

In edits, that paragraph is going to be like… one sentence.<\/p>\n

But right now, it’s WORD COUNT<\/em>, baby, and more importantly, I had fun writing it.<\/p>\n

I had fun<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Writing for a living is a fine and good thing (in one way or another, that’s what I do, even at the day job), but the key thing to remember is we love<\/em> this.<\/p>\n

And it’s fun.<\/p>\n

And we get to do it all month long.<\/p>\n

Seriously: I am so fucking happy right now.<\/p>\n

Even when I read that paragraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a quick post today. By tomorrow, you’re going to actually know where the story is going for, like, the first time, and we’re going to talk about that, but for today? Quick post. You’re writing crap. Yes, you’re biting that elephant to death, but in another very real way you are, as the kids … <\/p>\n

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