PicoWriMo final report

[julesjones]

There's a comm on LJ for people who like the idea of NaNoWriMo, but know that for whatever reason it's not practical to do 50 kwords in a month. Hence Pico instead of NaNo, where you get the benefit of the daily goal and company on the way, but on a writing project that targets what you can or want to do. Several times I've done the the "300 words a day" target from Sir Pterry's advice on how to write a novel without being intimidated by the idea of writing 100,000 words. I did 100 words a day at a point where that really was all I could do, but at least it helped me get it done. I've done "get x pages of my website updated". It's useful for all sorts of things. For this November, here's my comment from the wrap-up post at the comm:


So my month of Pico:
— Started getting back into using Scrivener, which may make life a lot easier with a couple of projects that were on the go just before I got too ill to write and hold down a day job at the same time.
— Got a novel draft into Scrivener.
— Went through most of it checking the timeline, and checked and tweaked inconsistencies in the setting that were the result of the thing turning into a novel.
— Got a good idea of what bits I still need to fill in from scenes that are currently only sketches (and found there were fewer of those than I thought).
— Failed to check in every day because I was so busy with the above. Sorry I didn't get around to commenting on other people's progress. I had a good excuse, honest.

Pretty successful for me, because it's really helped me start writing again after several years of finding it too difficult. Thank you, Wiseheart, for steering the comm.

Comments

[sallymn]

I'm glad you got so much out of it :) It's quiet and low pressure, but I do find it a help.

[green_knight]

Any writing is good, and your month sounds productive!

[watervole]

Sounds like some positive work :)