nano update

[ysobel]

So here's the thing.

I have, as of last night, hit 30k words.

This is a good thing. I am willing to admit that. However, a) I hate the story like burning, b) I have run out of plot and words, and c) there is no way I can write 20k in the next week anyway.

So I am trying to figure out what to do.

Poll #5165

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What should I do with nano?

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Declare 30k a victory and stop
13 (46.4%)

Push on for 50k (and probably fail)
2 (7.1%)

Start some other writing project and hope for 20k words, even though that is against the purpose of nano
5 (17.9%)

(something else)
8 (28.6%)

something else is:

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Ticky?

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needs more sugar
12 (52.2%)

needs more rum
11 (47.8%)

needs November to have 40 days
14 (60.9%)

[#][#][#]
6 (26.1%)

does not like itself very much
2 (8.7%)

Comments

[synecdochic]

Either A or C would work, so I think you should combine them: declare 30k a victory, and then, if you have something else that is tickling your brain, and that you think you might make 20k words on, give it a start. The 'rules' are a starting point anyway. in more than one year, i've bent them: written on something i'd already started, written a bunch of different things, yadda. The point is just to get writing!