It's not hard for me to crank out high word counts. It is hard for me to not want to go back and make those words actually good.
I can type fast. And my best thinking comes when my fingers are flying across the keyboard. If I stop to think, my thinking stops. Unfortunate but true. I just have to keep going.
However, there comes a point in every nano project when you realize that what you're writing is not very good.
Because, let's face it, it never is. Writing 50k words in 30 days is not going to produce anything resembling quality.
But what you have to remember is that no book ever became good on the first draft. Even bestsellers by people like Stephen King or Dean Koontz take drafts upon drafts to become publishable.
Once you have a draft written, that's when the real work begins.
It's just hard to remember that. I keep thinking of things I want to go back and fix, but I must force myself not to.
Today's total word count at midnight: 4609
(1728 yesterday and 2881 today)
(not counting these blog posts. ;)
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