21 October 2011

On Chapter 13 and NaNoWriMo

I have a rough estimate of when I'll be be able to put chapter 13 online- end of December seems rather reasonable mostly because November is NaNoWriMo

I don't feel like doing the whole 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo this year. Instead I want to write a complete fanfiction multi-chapter story from start to finish within one month- each chapter would have to be published everyday/alternate day.

Sounds rather crazy, eh?

But just thinking about it makes me eager to try it out.

My previous NaNoWriMo, I kept whatever I wrote on my laptop itself- I never published it online where people could call me out on what I was writing.

And even though I got 50,000 words in the end- the story (plot) itself was never complete.

So this year instead of concentrating on getting just words out, I want to concentrate on finishing a story regardless of the wordcount.

Why do I want to do this?

Well, if you've read my previous posts- or just the sidebar on here- you might have noticed the large number of cross-over oneshots and stories that are waiting to be completed (sadly now there's a HpxSupernatural story in that list as well).

I keep thinking the stories are done- like my HpxFairy tail one- but when I read it over to put it online, I always end up adding more stuff to it!

It's getting beyond ridiculous. While I am really proud that I wrote so much over the months, I really want to finish those stories.

So if I finish a new story from start to finish in one month- then there's no reason for me to procrastinate on those other one-shots/stories/AtO chapter for more than 3-6 months.

At least that's what I'm hoping for.

Polar
P.S. The HPxSupernatural story... I completely blame "It's All in the Details" by Colleen. It's a time travel story, but somehow the character interactions spawned a plot bunny in my head where my favorite HP trio were the main focus. Re-watching Death's entrance in SPN's season  and reading a book on Celtic Mythology really didn't help matters.

P.P.S. There's another deleted scene coming up. Found a blob of text that never got published for chapter 6- so I''ll be re-writing it/adding more to it and putting it on here. It has a title- "Five times Harry unknowingly impresses others in AtO" Can you guess which five times those are?