Noticing Newbies

Really? Hrm... I guess I came in with all kinds of energy, and quickly burned through it without having a network of WDC friends to help build it back up. I read everything I could, I did a small bunch of reviews, and then posted some of my work. When I started writing (really new to the whole thing -- I hadn't written so much as a short story before July of this year), I was putting out 5k words a day. I joined WDC and that dropped to about 2k a day.

I'm wordy. Like Encyclopedia Brittanica vs Dr. Seuss kinda wordy. So getting people to read my monstrosities has been difficult, and to tell you the truth, some of my writing just sucked, and people were too polite to say so. So those that did read it didn't review it -- except for a few, which I am extremely grateful for. I was constantly looking for replies or reviews that weren't happening, instead of just letting it flow normally and having people discover me naturally.

I also found that WDC is incredibly addicting, and it was wonderful -- but it was keeping me from writing. Then the NaNo prep came around, and I spent a month doing that and little else (from my perspective) and then a month with Nano, and that was a complete waste -- not the program, but what it did for me. I ended up in worse shape than when I started the prep in October.

I decided on the first of December to just start writing again without WDC or any other input to distract me, and I popped right back up to 10-15k words a day and then some. I'm in good shape, and things are happening.

And so I come back over to WDC, and I wonder if/how I am supposed to fit in. I don't know a darned thing about point of view, theme, plotlines, character differentiation, or anything that seems to be valuable and called for in reviewing. The only thing I seem to be able to do is write. A lot. And then more. I'm going on 18-24 hour writing binges, and then I sleep for 12 and jump back up and start writing again.

So what do I need to fit into WDC? I honestly don't know. I feel like a square wheel.

>jace
neophyte novelist
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