NaNoWriMo 2015, What? It's not too early! Options

[Grits]

Is anyone else planning to do April’s Camp NaNoWriMo? I’m deciding between a short story and another Jerric’s Story chapter, leaning heavily toward the new chapter. My goal is 25k, which I think is pretty reasonable.

[Kazaera]

Well, halfway through April and 5.5k words... it seems I may have overreached myself a little with 20k. To be fair, I've ended up sort of unexpectedly super-busy (my schedule for the rest of this week makes me want to cry) but still. I may just decide to shoot for 10k instead of 20k.

Also, I am getting suddenly sidetracked by a character who's suddenly popping up in my head demanding I write about him. I'm really tempted to go for a short story featuring him but a) I really do want to focus on SitC and b ) knowing my ability to estimate story lengths the "short story" will end up a novel. I am not even joking here. (My ability to estimate how long a given piece will be is consistently off by a factor of five to ten. If I think I can manage something in 100 words, I'll probably need close to a thousand. If I think something will be 1k words, it's more likely to be in the 8-10k length. Since my gut feeling about this piece is "oh, maybe 10k words"... well.)

This post has been edited by Kazaera: Apr 14 2015, 08:27 PM