Nanowrimo Day 29 :>{)

Well, the 50,000 words have been written (50,122 to be exact). Sadly, the story isn't finished. It is endless. And it might stay that way--FOREVER!

The first two weeks of November were definitely the honeymoon stage. I was very happy and in love.

The third week was when I became disenchanted with my characters and their rather lame plot.

The forth week was filled with bitterness.

Over the past few days, the decision was made to separate. Though it has not yet been decided if it will become permanent. There is a small possibility of us getting back together. I want to believe that once I cut through the mounds of crap, there will be something to salvage. 

But for now, it will be exiled to my external hard drive. Its future as yet undetermined.

IT IS OVER! YIPPY!!!

*Now back to my regularly scheduled life*

nanowrimo day 22 *L*

The first two weeks of nanowrimo were awesome. I wrote every day. And each one of those days I averaged 2000 words. I was on fire!

Then I hit the third week (last week) and I only wrote 4 out of 6 days (I don't write on Sundays), with a total cumulative of 8613 words. That was with me writing 3000 words on Friday.

Now it's week four, I have 32128 words complete, leaving 17872 words for me to write in only 8 days, and I don't want to do it. Which is probably obvious since I'm blogging about writing instead of actually writing.

Yes, I have hit my slump and am wallowing in it.

Why did I want to do thing again? I've forgotten.

nanowrimo day 3 :)

It's day 3 of nano and I am happy to say that I've kept with my schedule of 2000 words a day. I'm enjoying it while it lasts, because I don't know how the rest of this month will pan out and any day I can do 2000 words is a successful day. Another indicator of success? The fact I'm enjoying the story. I'm calling it Superman for right now. It's contemporary YA. With a sorta supernatural element. There's a boy and a girl. I have no idea where it's going beyond the first bit. It'll be interesting to find out.

The very first novel-length something I wrote took me two years to finish. Well, the first draft took me that long. Technically, I still haven't finished it. But it took me three years because I just kept editing the beginning, over and over. And then the middle, over and over. Then back to the beginning, again and again. Finally I just made myself finish, which was really tough. It was a glorious feeling to reach the end. (It would probably be even more glorious if I'd finish it all together).

One of the cool things about nano is that I can't go back and edit during November. I just have to write. And after four years of doing this, I've gotten good at moving past crappy writing and just getting the story on the page. Editing comes AFTER. Earlier today I was amazed at how horrible the writing was and I was okay with moving on. It was a wonderful feeling.

27 days/43,693 words to go