so, how goes the good fight?
It goes strangely, droogs.
I've got about 5,000-ish words left to write before I win, I'm nowhere near done with the arc of my novel, I'm full of doubts, I want to kill almost all of my characters in horrible ways (but can't if I want this thing to work) and haven't enjoyed writing any of the things I was looking forward to writing, instead spiralling off on tangents about wallpaper.
That said, I'm so glad that I did NaNoWriMo.
It snuck up behind my writer's block and got it by the neck with a garroting wire and I feel so much better. I'm full of ideas, and unfortunately they're mostly for projects that I want to start once I've got All Things Buried tied up (more or less) neatly, but it feels good to be able to write again and even if I never finish this thing, I think that I've already kind of won.
Also, if anyone wants to read what I've got, I can send you a link to the Google Docs copy. I'm dying for feedback like the great big attention whore that I am. It's so weird to be writing and not have that instant gratification factor that doing fanfic and smacking a new chapter up every day and getting all sorts of comments gives you. I miss having people throw quotes at me and tell me what works, because honestly I'm quite clueless as to what works and what doesn't and it's got me terrified.
I've got about 5,000-ish words left to write before I win, I'm nowhere near done with the arc of my novel, I'm full of doubts, I want to kill almost all of my characters in horrible ways (but can't if I want this thing to work) and haven't enjoyed writing any of the things I was looking forward to writing, instead spiralling off on tangents about wallpaper.
That said, I'm so glad that I did NaNoWriMo.
It snuck up behind my writer's block and got it by the neck with a garroting wire and I feel so much better. I'm full of ideas, and unfortunately they're mostly for projects that I want to start once I've got All Things Buried tied up (more or less) neatly, but it feels good to be able to write again and even if I never finish this thing, I think that I've already kind of won.
Also, if anyone wants to read what I've got, I can send you a link to the Google Docs copy. I'm dying for feedback like the great big attention whore that I am. It's so weird to be writing and not have that instant gratification factor that doing fanfic and smacking a new chapter up every day and getting all sorts of comments gives you. I miss having people throw quotes at me and tell me what works, because honestly I'm quite clueless as to what works and what doesn't and it's got me terrified.