RE: NanoWrimo, Hemingway and Overcoming Procrastination

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NanoWrimo, Hemingway and Overcoming Procrastination

in writing •  5 years ago 

Planning character arcs, tracking timelines and plotting a novel is a herculean task.

Not if you are a pantser like me ;)
Or let's say I do the work while writing.

btw. Scrivener has a NaNo template. (Maybe not in the original download, but you can dl it somewhere). It has e.g. the 50K words wired in.

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Ha ha.... damn you pantser have it easy ;-)

I'm writing a fantasy trilogy for which I've had a lot of the world building done for years. Unfortunately through the planning process for novel number one I'm discovering there is a tone of political and social background missing which I need to make notes on before I dive into actually writing the prose 🤣

Such is life.

btw. Scrivener has a NaNo template. (Maybe not in the original download, but you can dl it somewhere). It has e.g. the 50K words wired in.

Cheers dude. Yeah I discovered a load of different templates, and I've gone with the KM Weiland Template as well as another fantasy specific one for world building. I need to do this level of prep to give me a chance of hitting the jackpot and writing the next HBO mega series ;-)

P.s. that KM Weiland Template is really good for any genre of novel, or literary fiction 🙂👍 Thanks for your comment @lennstar

We pantsers have it easy? We have to do what you do in years in mere minutes! :D

We have to invent a technology (and how it works) on the fly, invent a pantheon as the priest holds his midsummer speech...

We pantsers have it easy? We have to do what you do in years in mere minutes! :D

Ha ha, fair enough 😆 I couldn't do it on the fly, certainly not fantasy fiction anyway. I think I could maybe try flying by my pants with a literary fiction or crime drama, I'm too deep down the rabbit hole now though 😉

Try it next year. I always have a year specific challenge for NaNo.
Doing it the pantser way sounds like a good opportunity do learn something.