NaNoWriMo - TheMewl
I'm in a fiction writing class and I've realised that my writing habits are my own worst enemy. To that extent, I've decided that attempting to write a 50,000 word novel will help me just put word on paper and leave artifice and editing for the next step. Man that's gonna be tough.
The thing I've realised with sculpture, drawing, and the visual arts is that in the creative process there, you can see the whole as it forms. You don't work on one part to get to the next part to get to the next part. Sculpting from a model, you build up the shoulder here, then adjust the thickness of the hip, add a little to the waist. I prefer to do it that way as it comes together as one, rather than getting a complete shoulder but a basic waist.
With writing, the whole is in your head, very often nebulous by choice and always malleable. You have to put it down in a causal order, and if some of those causes haven't been worked out yet, you gotta yank em out of you. With writing I almost feel that the product is in my head, not on the page. The page and words are just the medium. So when the sentence doesn't sound right to me, I make sure it sounds right before I go to the next one. If I read the paragraph and a sentence sticks out, I rearrange the paragraph. This I do on the first draft, and it constipates the story. That's why I'm doing NaNoWriMo. I need to free the story and characters from the medium and worry about my placement of sibilants and prepositions later.
Well, I don't have time to write my treatise on the creative process, nor do I have the priveledge of experience to condone your heeding of my advice.
