My writing skills are either really good, or just really insane. Or both. Many artists are insane.
When I wrote an 8page (double spaced) paper in two hours, I thought that was pretty good. Yes, that is quite a WPM rate; my roommate said my typing sounded like a machine gun going off. But college papers are easily structured and outlined. You basically just need to list the points that you want to cover, dig out a few good quotes from your sources, and then string the ideas together with fancy, SAT vocabulary.
Novels, on the other hand, are an entirely different matter. There is absolutely nothing to follow. At least not with the way I write novels. Literally what I have to do is sit there staring into blankness, mentally prodding my characters along, possibly speaking to them (in my head, usually), until they decide to do something interesting and worth writing about. It is the most agonizingly slow process ever. But, in the past three days, I somehow wrote 10,000 words in my novel, with the majority of it in just the past two days. I am mind blown; I never knew I could write so much in such a short span of time.
Here be the breakdown of my pathetically-behind-until-a-few-minutes-ago word count:
Nov. 16th: 20,818
Nov. 17th: 25,826
Nov. 18th: 30,081
And it's not even 10pm yet!
Woot GRATS on the word sprinting! :}
ReplyDeleteStrangely I find I can write stories faster than essays. I suck at essays. I was never good at the whole points and quotes and stringing them together. I don't think my mind works that way. (Yet I think with the same logic as a computer... go figure.) My characters on the other hand, well... Okay so they've been talking to me in my head for a few years now, so I suspect they got enough stuff worth writing about in that time to make me have plenty to write down.
Anyway You're almost on track! Keep it up!
:} ELorithryn