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oloriel50,032 words.
So, I have finished NaNo.
That is, of course I haven't finished my novel. I have written 45 pages on How It Starts, which are mostly okay except for one really crappy episode, and then there's this huge middle part missing, and then there are 30 pages of Ultimate Plot-Twisting And What Happens Afterwards, which are total and utter crap.
The decent thing to do, and the thing to do if this is to be anything more than a little NaNo exercise guilty displeasure, would be deleting those 30 pages, and re-writing them in a less trite, boring and uneffective way.
The thing is, NOW I actually have an idea how that might work. Unfortunately, I did not have that idea 30 pages/10 days ago. I even suspect that I first had to find out that the original idea wasn't actually good before I could have the better (?) idea.
What I actually will do, of course, is
1) claim that NaNo victory. It's 50,032 bloody words long, and NaNo famously isn't about getting it right.
2) do nothing about this for a while. I'll just let it sit and steep, so to say. Well, I'll take some notes about the better (?) idea to do those 30 pages, so I don't forget it. But otherwise, hands off.
3) when I'm no longer tempted to throw up at the mere thought of this thing, I'll have another look. I'll see if the first 45 pages Except For That One Episode still look ok, and cut out the Bad Episode. I'll see if I know how to fill the middle by then. And then I'll see if the 30 offending pages are still offending. If so, I can delete and rewrite and see if the other idea actually is better or if I've just found another way how this novel isn't going to work, yay.
4)...
5)...
6) PROFIT?
Or not - whatever.
For now, I'm just glad this is over. And even though 30 pages of it are trite, boring, irrelevant and leading nowhere, at least I got them written first.
I feel like I finished a bloody marathon. No, honestly, this is physically exhausting. Oof. NEVER AGAIN. (quoth she, before signing up for NaNoWriMo 2013.)
