Day nine. Oooh, day nine. I should have expected it from a Monday. Sometimes, I forget how busy and packed my Mondays are. As a result, I fell behind on word count. *hides from flying rotten tomatoes* I know, ugh, believe me, I KNOW. I wanted so badly to hit 20,000 by Sunday, but that didn’t happen so I shifted my goal to Monday. Then Monday came along, and all of a sudden I was sitting at a late night with very little opportunity to write. I did make it upwards of 17,000 by Monday night. I still failed, I know. Epic, epic failure.
However, last night I sat down and wrote. I wrote like I’ve never written before. Okay, not entirely true. But I did crank out a good 3k in about two hours solid writing time sprinkled throughout the day.
Even more exciting?! PLOT TWIST! Totally showed up all on its own. I guess this is what happens when I trust my characters. It’s like they have their own story to tell, and I’m just along for the ride, I’m just the agent they’re using to tell that story. I love it, I really do.
I’m having trouble, however, as the month wears on, turning off my inner editor. I know it’s important to write and just write. Get it all out before I go back and nitpick and lose touch with the ideas I originally had. That I can pick the perfect word later. But it’s still hard sometimes.
Such is the challenge of Nano, I suppose (well, that and getting 50,000 on the page before the end of November).
And this is day eleven, which I can’t write about until later. But I can say HAPPY VETERANS DAY! Thanks so much to all the men and women fighting overseas to keep us safe. You are all so very appreciated.
