It’s nearly the end of the first week, and due to the depression and resulting insomnia (I’ve been averaging about 8 hours of sleep a week for the last month, fun eh?), I’ve been way down on productive things.
However, I still managed to get a second story written, this one also over 4k words (5160 actually). Oh well, hopefully in the editing process I’ll cut some of that out. 5k seems to be my natural first draft for stories length I guess. Well, except the occasional 7k one, but that’s definitely the exception so far, thank god.
The bright side is that I feel both of these stories will be submittable after editing. They’re both a little weird, and one needs some propping up of the plot elements, but nothing that an editing pass or three won’t solve. So we’ll see. Next up I might tackle the novella I’ve been meaning to do since Worldcon, or maybe the story about the Rusalka. Or the one about magic chalk.
So NaShoWriMo isn’t much of a success so far in terms of getting lots produced, but two stories a week wouldn’t be the worst pace ever (as Oso keeps reminding me, heh). I’m just so used to novel writing lately that getting two things done in a week seems really slow to me. But novel writing is a totally different beast than composing a fresh new world on the fly constantly, so I guess there’s that. I’ll keep plugging away. Maybe I can get three done this next week, now that I have some momentum going. *grin*
