Tomorrow it begins…
It’s that time of year already. This year has flown by all crazy-like and it’s been full of ups and downs. Unfortunately, mostly downs, but it’s getting better.
But all that’s behind me now, because November is National Novel Writing Month! Tomorrow at midnight, my first words will be plugged in and off I will go on my insane trek through my own mind. Scarrryyy!!
Please keep reading my blog as I will need as much encouragement as I can get. I lose focus so quickly, it’s sad. I’ll keep this updated and entice you with tidbits from time to time, promise!!
Love ya all,
Nise
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.
Nanowrimo. Thou art my friend.
If you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, and you love to write, please check out the official site and accompanying forums: http://www.nanowrimo.org/
NaNoWriMo, which stands for National Novel Writing Month, is a special challenge to writers to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. The month is November and it starts in 4 days.
The challenge has no prizes to win, merely the satisfaction that you have put forth the effort and poured your heart and soul into a writing project and completed a project. That’s good enough for me.
I know what I’m going to write about this year and I have a guideline. It’s not quite a serious storyline and has an implausible plot, set half in a fantasy realm and half in modern times in an actual city. The novel is more of a parody than anything, prompted by a list of “what not to do in fantasy fiction” topics. I, of course, will use as many of them as possible. This won’t be my Badger novel, but perhaps I can keep the impetus going after the November challenge and actually create a completed working draft of the Badger novel.
Allowing Distraction
My excuse for not blogging is that I just haven’t. I have nothing to show for the past couple of months, therefore nothing much to say. I suppose that’s a lame excuse. I could write about any number of things.
This needs discipline- writing needs discipline- and I am going to work on that. So, I’m setting aside at least an hour a day of uninterrupted time in order to write something, anything, other than roleplay-type adventures. I have six hours a night. I can easily set aside an hour in there.
So, I’ve decided…
I’ve decided to go with the long story, the trilogy. I’m scared now. Don’t ask me why, but it scares the crap out of me to think that I’ve committed myself to this project. I’m such a wuss. *enter laughter here*
Perhaps tomorrow I shall put up an excerpt of the first chapter, seeing as everyone else has done so.
Wish me luck!
Distraction, thy name is… ooh, look! A bunny!
I had the perfect opportunity to write today at my lunch hour. Instead, I wandered the paths of the internet, doing everything but write. Comics, forums, photo surfing… yeah. I got little done. Though, I did manage to write the synopsis of the final scene for the vague story in my head, so I suppose that’s a start.
Still, I wonder if this story will get written. I don’t have a yen for it like I do a longer plot of mine that I’ve been holding off for the past year. I’m not certain of the other one, however, because it’s SO long, it is looking like a trilogy. The last thing I want to do is publish the first of a trilogy and spend the next 20 years writing the two sequels. Bad for business.
Maybe I’d better go back to the drawing board and find something I really want to write.
