NaNoEdMo (and too many parenthetical clauses!)
It's March, officially NaNoEdittingMo. I said in November that I would be participating. But really? I have no motivation right now. Last night, when thinking "what am I going to do tomorrow?" (in hopes it would quiet my mind and put me to sleep, since I was up till after 4:30, thinking of him... it didn't work, obviously) I decided I would write today. But now that I'm awake and have been for a few hours, I don't feel like it. I can't move my curser to open word and start on it. Which is odd, because I'm having no problems typing this.
Part of it is the fact that I'm pretty much starting from scratch. I know I'm deleting four characters right off the bat. The first idea I had for the story is being scrapped (having a changeling. I didn't include it in the first draft, but meant to do so. After reading a bit about them, I've decided that they wouldn't replace a teenager anyway. Logistics man, they screw me over.) I'm changing POV. It's still third person, but it's from Padraic's side instead of Erin's. This scares me, because I don't write so close to the boys in my stories. (I wouldn't say they scare me, but I'm afraid of getting it wrong.) (Or maybe I'm just incapable of interacting with guys of any form? Gods, that would suck ass.) (Actually, I did once for creative writing and the teacher thought they were lesbians, since it was in first person. Clearly, I don't understand boys.)
There's also the fact that, having gone to a concert last night, I'm in a great mindset to work on my other story(MFA. Don't ask what that stands for; I need a new name for it, but until I'm finished, it gets to keep the shit one). You know, the one that I started fall of Junior Year... so 2006. The one that I am in love with, but having trouble with pacing? Yeah, I want to write the end of it, because that's where my head is, and maybe writing the end will encourage the middle (and a better beginning...).
But I said months ago that I would do NaNoEdMo.
Maybe I'll do both of them. A few pages of EdMo to get me warmed up, the work on MFA?
Yeah, that sounds good.
Part of it is the fact that I'm pretty much starting from scratch. I know I'm deleting four characters right off the bat. The first idea I had for the story is being scrapped (having a changeling. I didn't include it in the first draft, but meant to do so. After reading a bit about them, I've decided that they wouldn't replace a teenager anyway. Logistics man, they screw me over.) I'm changing POV. It's still third person, but it's from Padraic's side instead of Erin's. This scares me, because I don't write so close to the boys in my stories. (I wouldn't say they scare me, but I'm afraid of getting it wrong.) (Or maybe I'm just incapable of interacting with guys of any form? Gods, that would suck ass.) (Actually, I did once for creative writing and the teacher thought they were lesbians, since it was in first person. Clearly, I don't understand boys.)
There's also the fact that, having gone to a concert last night, I'm in a great mindset to work on my other story(MFA. Don't ask what that stands for; I need a new name for it, but until I'm finished, it gets to keep the shit one). You know, the one that I started fall of Junior Year... so 2006. The one that I am in love with, but having trouble with pacing? Yeah, I want to write the end of it, because that's where my head is, and maybe writing the end will encourage the middle (and a better beginning...).
But I said months ago that I would do NaNoEdMo.
Maybe I'll do both of them. A few pages of EdMo to get me warmed up, the work on MFA?
Yeah, that sounds good.