Hi!
So it's day 22 of NaNoWriMo. And by my original goal of 2,000 words per day I should be at 44,000. *looks at side bar* 26,000... *laughs maniacally*
What happened? Well I can't completely blame my busy life. There was some Brownie stuff that took up a bunch of time and then I knitted the same scarf twice (cause I ripped it apart when I was almost done and started over). Mostly I just haven't sat down at the computer to write.
I kinda blame the story. My main character is just now starting to flesh out, she's been a boring little wall flower through most of the 26,000 words. It's so hard to write something you don't particularly care for. So change it, you say. Easier said than done, I've tried throwing her into interesting events and she backs off like, "oh no, not going there!" (For a very fun example of this, read Zette's Writing & Photography: Author Versus Character)
I don't know. I'm going to try chugging through another 24,000 words. In the end, I will have 50,000 words of crap. They are a few scenes I might steal for another book but on the whole, I'm not thrilled with this one. I think I needed to start in a different direction in the beginning and while I'm trying to push it in a new direction now, the characters are being stubborn and saying it's not their style. NaNo really requires one to turn off the inner editor which is probably good cause otherwise I'd only have about 10,000 words at this point.
Now then, all this rambling has cost me 294 words so I guess I better go attempt another few thousand in my actual story.
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