A Novel, I have been writing a novel Options

[TheTrueCaboose]

Well I was away for a while and in that time I've nearly finished my first draft of a fantasy novel I have been writing (needless to say my skills at writing have greatly improved). So I was just wondering what other people on the site have thought about writing one or are in the middle of one

[Grits]

I think (I could be wrong) that the idea with writing a novel in a month is to produce a first draft in that period, not a finished product. The short time frame might encourage locking away the internal editor and just letting the story fly? I haven’t tried it. It would also encourage the habit of writing every day. I don’t have that habit. I write when I have time rather than insisting on time to write. Something I need to change!

[TheTrueCaboose]

I think (I could be wrong) that the idea with writing a novel in a month is to produce a first draft in that period, not a finished product. The short time frame might encourage locking away the internal editor and just letting the story fly? I haven’t tried it. It would also encourage the habit of writing every day. I don’t have that habit. I write when I have time rather than insisting on time to write. Something I need to change!

Oh I though it meant a finished book but a first draft seems more plausible. It's pretty hard to not want to pick apart the story as you write it and the only way I got around that was by setting myself time limits on chapters. I mean writing every day is good but because I would always procrastinate I wrote myself up a timetable to write. Maybe a timetable could work for you