*sigh*
So… Tuesday was the first day of NaNoWriMo. I started at 12:00 midnight without any theme or genre or idea. I decided to start writing an original cyberpunk novel, but in a setting similar to Neuromancer.
While I was writing I tried to avoid cliches and anything resembling Blade Runner, Sprawl or Matrix. After 600 words I ended up with a crap story that didn’t arouse interest in me.
The next day, still under the 24-hours of the Day 1, I wrote again. I gotten something around 1080 words and stopped. Shame, I wasn’t able to keep moving forward.
Friday I tried to improve some of the existing dialogue and characters. It helped to increase my word count a bit, but the novel was still unexciting and way far from the goal. That killed the rest of my motivation.
I will keep writing and keeping track of my word count, but I will not crave to win the challenge this year. Maybe my first try was too hard as I was writing in a fictional setting with a bunch of made up gadgets.
Here are my top mistakes:
- Too much distractions.
- Not schedule a strict writing time.
- No planning (Setting, characters, and any other background information).
- Decide the theme on short notice.