CheeryMoya wrote:I see games with loads of characters and lots of wordcount already, and I think to myself, "They either have too much free time or are demons to be working that fast!" Ugh...
XD Like me and my 12,000 word count? I planned out a lot of the script in the week or two before NaNoRenO started. A good strategy for NaNoWriMo was always to lay the groundwork down beforehand--any planning you can--so that once the month starts, you can dedicate more of your time to just writing the novel itself. Because I knew I'd also have to program, coordinate music, and do all that other non-art stuff, I tried to plan out more of our story so that I'd have lots of room for errors and sudden visits from relatives and whatnot... Not finishing our game is not an option for me. ^^;
And then I figured out a ballpark estimate for how many words our script would require in total... After that, I made a promise to myself to write at least 2,000 words a day. Even when I got home from class at 10PM or back from hanging out with my friends after midnight, I still had to write my 2k before going to sleep. On Saturday I got really inspired and wrote 7,000 words in one day, though, so it gave me some padding. Good thing, too, because I hardly wrote anything yesterday due to lack of inspiration. D:
Anyway... PLANNING. DO LOTS OF IT. I have very little free time, actually... I am a full-time (psychology/neuroscience) university student and most days I don't even get home until 6PM at the earliest. I still have to study, go to the gym, cook meals, and do other stuff, I just optimize the time I do have so that I can write or program more. XD