Week One – The wins and losses

This week I tried a new approach to writing a novel. Instead of trying to plot out the whole thing in advance and write chapter by chapter, I decided to aim for writing one scene at a time. I spent some time writing out on little cue cards the scenes I wanted to write this week and then wrote one or more a day. My goal was an average of 1000 words a day and so far I have been able to maintain that.

I do not want to burn myself out so I am taking time to check in with myself to see what I need. I do not want to overdue it like I have in the past. One of the reason I quit the whole NaNoWriMo scene is because at the end of those months I wouldn’t have any energy left to review what I wrote and then the manuscripts would sit dead on my hard drive.

Side note regarding a story uploaded to Wattpad – apparently one of them was too spicy for them to handle so they took it down. Was this censorship? It absolutely was but it’s their platform and they get to choose what content is allowed on there. Ah well, I will just have to consider this constructive criticism and do some re-writes.