It’s official!
After all that stress and burned out eyeballs, I sprinted over the 50k finish line at 4:20 am. Now, I am officially a winner on the NaNoWriMo site and it feels great. Now I will take a break and in a few months, I will come back to it to begin editing.
A week of writing
It’s been a week since starting on my NaNoWriMo novel and I’m already up to 20,000. Even though it places me two days ahead, I find that I’m not really satisfied with the progress. I want it to be higher! My goal for Sunday is 25,000 words, though I have a second, much loftier goal of 30,000. This story is exciting to me and I really want to see it through, ESPECIALLY since I rarely finish anything.
I would recommend this turbocharged method of writing for anyone who has difficulty with procrastination and distraction. There is a wonderful community that goes along with this challenge, and I feel like I’ve already made a bunch of friends that give me such encouragement and desire to keep going despite my tendency towards giving up too easily.
Onward to 30,000!
Writing what nags you
After spending last night staring at the crap that I wrote the first night of NaNo, completely uninspired, I decided this morning to break from it and let my character out to play. Her name is Isaura, and she is a character from a roleplaying forum. My idea of roleplay is “spontaneous collaborative writing”, which to me is more accurate. In any case, I let her out and began to write. In an two and a half hours, I had written almost 3600 words and the quality is far better than what I had with the first story. I can’t go back now. Inspiration has struck and I’m going with the flow. I stand now at 4491 words, 510 words short of my goal for the day, which I am sure I will surpass by midnight.
In case you are reading and wish to read the first 4366 words, I have published it on google docs here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dngf3z7_1hv54jw
I will continue to update as I go, so feel free to keep watching my progress. Comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome. I love feedback, especially if it’s constructive.
Update: I figured I’d surpass the 5001 word mark before midnight. I actually passed the mark before 6 pm. Go me!
Behind on Nano
Yes. I’m super behind on NaNoWriMo. I didn’t write a single word today. Between stressed out days and sleepless nights, I developed a whopper of a migraine that stayed with me until I got home. It’s at a minimum now, but I am in no shape to write. Sounds like an excuse, but truly, it’s difficult to function when you feel like gouging out your own eyeball so it will stop hurting.
Learning lessons about writing.
Lesson #1: If I’m planning to write at midnight, take more than an hour and a half for a nap.
Lesson #2: Anything that comes out of my head at midnight after an hour and a half nap is going to be utter crap. Just keep going. There will be plenty of time to edit later.
Lesson #3: Cracking your main character’s head open with an axe is a surefire way to spark a new and more exciting direction for your Nano story.
That is all.
