Perhaps some of you are beginning to feel the hopelessness of staring at a blank page on your wordprocessor or paper.
(Chet sees a blank line, ahahaha. Sorry, couldn't resist.)
And you're thinking a lot of thoughts that aren't helping like:
My novel sucks.
My characters bore me.
I don't know what to write next.
I must have been crazy to try this.
ZOMG, 50,000 words and I'm not up to 1000 yet.
One word at a time.
One sentence at a time.
One paragraph, one page, one chapter.
And remember this: NaNo is like a marathon. Yes, there will be some who get to the finish line soonest but at the end of it, everyone will be cheering you on to finish. To cross that line that marks the end of your novelling journey.
Everyone here, in this forum, in this glorious global endeavour, want you to succeed. We're all rooting for each other. We're all rooting for you.
So come, my Wrimos and take again pen to paper or fingers to keyboard and let the words flow until you get to the very last magical two:
The End.
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Stand for something, lest you fall for anything.
51,910 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2007 - 09 26
Most Honorable ML:
Er ... care to explain the above?
Let me share my progress so far.
I hit 25K thereabouts and wondered what was going to happen next. It doesn't help that I've been unwell since Sunday. I didn't write on day 11 and I didn't write on day 14. That's a lot of non-writing days in November!!
This morning, I laboured over the writing, checking the word count every so often, only to find it's progressed 10 or so words since I last checked.
This evening, I sat down to write again. Something magic happened. My characters pushed me aside and took over my AlphaSmart. I can see the story all the way to how it ends! And it's not how I had planned it originally.
What happened today is a reminder to let my characters lead the way and go where they want to go. After all, it's their story!
Also, for this year, I've been doing daily outlines for each day's writing. I have a file I call Daily Key Words and Points. I refer to the file every so often and try to include every point in the day's writing.
9,654 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2007 - 09 52
Just taking the mickey, Chet. ;)
Since your Dana's 'screen' is one of a kind.
(and it got you to share your inspiring tips! Huzza!)
----------Stand for something, lest you fall for anything.
50,191 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2007 - 10 05
I've gotten to the point where I'm formulating scenes when I should be paying attention in class. Revenge for taking so much of my time away, hmph.
Good speech eagle. Go bears!
50,301 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2007 - 19 59
Oh. Well. When I hit a slow spot I throw in a ninja. I figure I can go back and edit the ninja out later.
I keed, I keeed! I, too, agree that plot notes are indeed helpful. At least have an idea of what happens in a scene before writing it.
Me, I take off my glasses and word war with others. Yeap, writing blind! Then I'm not so focused on what's happening on the screen as I am with typing. Not a good idea if you're not good at typing with your eyes closed though.