5 Days until NaNoWriMo!

Woo, only 5 more Days until NaNoWriMo!!



If you've read my blog before you'll know that I am a very huge planner! I love to plan my novels out completely before I set a word down in that pristine white document headed 'Chapter One'. However, you could also say that I do go off on tangents and start writing passages that I haven't planned. Some people swear by this method, coined 'pantsing', rather than actually planning out what they're going to write.



So it might be obvious to you guys, but this post is going to be about letting your writing come naturally with or without a plan.



I covered reaching the 1,667 words a day in a previous blog post [insert here] where I said that you shouldn't push your words because you won't like what you're writing and you'll end up falling into the EDITING trap!



I've heard a few writers swear by pushing their words out because if they don't then they'll become lazy and they often quote Stephen King by saying how he locks himself away for 12 hours while he writes. And wouldn't that be great if you had enough space or freedom to just hide away and write for 12 hours without being disturbed by life.



I'm a pusher! I push my writing but I never read over what I've written. That I swear by. My key to letting things come naturally is to push yourself even if you're not in the mood, something you write will spur you on to keep writing. However, that's only if you've planned it and you know what you want to write.



Now I've never written anything that hasn't been planned, I always brainstorm and that makes writing flash fiction hard. But there are perks to being a pantser, and one of them is being able to write flash fiction and creating without the need of prior planning (except I can imagine that there is an internal plan).



Now, for the many pantsers of the world, you'll all have your own paces and your own ways of making your muse speak! But pushing your writing isn't such a bad thing, especially for NaNoWriMo as everything will need to be fine tuned in revisions (if you choose to take it that far) so what's to lose?



In the past when I've tried to write flash fiction I go to the internet and go through various aesthetic pictures, be it inspiration through a setting, a person, or writing prompts and words that spark your interests.



So if you're getting stuck for stuff to write this NaNoWriMo, or you're just struggling to burst the cap on your word count, you might wish to stop writing it and start something new for half an hour or so.



I hope something I said here makes sense and I hope you get some use from it!



-Joseph

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