NaNo: Thoughts
10,016 /50,000
(20.0%)
I am actually a fifth of the way there! This is a million times farther than I've gotten in the two previous years I've attempted NaNo. I don't know exactly what is causing me to do so much better than before. Is it the story? The characters? Do I just have more willpower? I can't believe I've gotten to 10,000 words. I don't think I've ever gotten that far in a story before, in consistent writing. I think I'm often too hard on myself, too determined to have everything plotted out, to know exactly where I'm going. To use a simile, writing this story is like letting the river flow where it wants to, as hard or fast as it wishes. In the past, I've tried to force it into narrow confines, creating canals and dams, making the flow dry up until there's barely a trickle. When I think about it, those canals and dams are really what should happen in editing, when you take the story and shape it.
All right, enough with the poetics. I've got a busy day lined up for tomorrow. Beside writing, I've got to make birthday cards, change over my closet from summer to winter, clean up like a madwoman and do laundry!