An Eye Opening Experience
I've discovered today what it's like to have your characters take over a story and lead the story for you. I'm incredibly proud of myself at the moment because this is the most I've ever written for pleasure. In the past I've always gotten to a certain point and given up because I think my writing was horrible. The first day of writing was incredibly retched; I couldn't decide how I wanted to start my story. I finally decided on perhaps starting further along in the story as a sort of teaser as to what was to come, but by the next day I knew it would not work. I didn't want to erase what little progress I had made so I highlighted my work into another color and started all over again. This time a brief prologue, that even though it needs a little work to get the kinks out, works brilliantly. Slowly but surely writing became more and more easier.
With the personality I have I always tried to fix every little thing as I wrote, but for the first time I'm ignoring those annoying green little wiggles and moving forward. I have to admit that it was incredibly hard at first. I kept looking back at one and thinking "Okay, I can fix you. No wait, later I'll fix you latter." Now if one pops up I don't really notice it. It really has opened doors for me creative wise. I feel that the reason I gave up so easily before hand was for the simple reason that I was way to nit picky over everything, and just got overly frustrated and gave up. I didn't want to do this with this story. This is the first story idea that came to me that I truly felt could be a wonderful story. Before I even heard about NaNoWriMo I had started doing a little bit of story plotting. I did the basic flush out of my characters, and where I wanted the story to go.
I'm just in wonder at how today's writing went. Before I sat down to write today I thought to myself how was I going to move the story forward, but then it just happened all on its own without me really thinking about it. It just happened; a character just opened the door, so to say, and it happened. I know that I don't have much written (5,106), but to me that's a milestone I can smile at.
With the personality I have I always tried to fix every little thing as I wrote, but for the first time I'm ignoring those annoying green little wiggles and moving forward. I have to admit that it was incredibly hard at first. I kept looking back at one and thinking "Okay, I can fix you. No wait, later I'll fix you latter." Now if one pops up I don't really notice it. It really has opened doors for me creative wise. I feel that the reason I gave up so easily before hand was for the simple reason that I was way to nit picky over everything, and just got overly frustrated and gave up. I didn't want to do this with this story. This is the first story idea that came to me that I truly felt could be a wonderful story. Before I even heard about NaNoWriMo I had started doing a little bit of story plotting. I did the basic flush out of my characters, and where I wanted the story to go.
I'm just in wonder at how today's writing went. Before I sat down to write today I thought to myself how was I going to move the story forward, but then it just happened all on its own without me really thinking about it. It just happened; a character just opened the door, so to say, and it happened. I know that I don't have much written (5,106), but to me that's a milestone I can smile at.