So I realize that the last time I wrote in here it was about a week ago or a little more than that. I have been working a gig that was explained to me in such a way that thought that I would only be working for one day and it evolved into two weeks. Since I work in theater most of the work hours I have put in are at night. Coincidentally I get the most amount of writing done at night after my son goes to bed. So since my last post I have been struggling to keep up with typing my 1,667 per day for NaNoWriMo. I was just barely staying on top of it up until this past Friday night. Now I am about three thousand words behind and my little man has decided that he will be very cranky for the next couple of days. (He's teething so I don't blame him a bit.) I am hoping that now that I don't have to work at night since the gig is over I can go to some of the evening write-ins and do some more word wars that make me so productive! I am so much more productive at a local Starbucks or something similar, it's crazy.
On the down side, I think I may be coming down with a cold. I keep feeling all achy and tired and I haven't gotten much sleep lately either. Hopefully all will resolve itself so that I don't have to deal with that at Thanksgiving and during the final push of NaNoWriMo!
Monday, November 15, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
When It Rains....
It pours. NaNoWriMo started on November first. (For anyone who doesn't know what it is go here. For those of us crazy enough to do it, GET BACK TO WORK! LoL) I should do a little of what I preach right? Well here's a bit of news that makes me rather happy: as of right now I am a full day ahead of schedule! Go me! I have never been ahead by a full day that I can remember. By the end of tonight I hope to be two full days ahead!
What's my purpose to this insanity? For the past two years my hardest time comes in the middle of November. For some reason the middle of the month brings a major writer's block with it. For whatever reason all of a sudden I find myself searching for things, anything really, for my characters to do to try and get the story moving along. This typically happens to me near the end of the second week and lasts for a number of days. It stinks. My word count plummets and so does my morale. This year I am hoping to fight the inevitable by creating a buffer for myself. I figure if I can get ahead by a couple of days then the down turn in my daily word counts won't put me behind too much. Let's face it, it's hard during any project to see a significant downward trend. Between this writer's block and family obligations at Thanksgiving my chances in gaining my fifty thousand word count go from some to none.
Here's to winning this year, cheers! *shuffles back into her little corner and gets back to her characters held in suspended animation*
What's my purpose to this insanity? For the past two years my hardest time comes in the middle of November. For some reason the middle of the month brings a major writer's block with it. For whatever reason all of a sudden I find myself searching for things, anything really, for my characters to do to try and get the story moving along. This typically happens to me near the end of the second week and lasts for a number of days. It stinks. My word count plummets and so does my morale. This year I am hoping to fight the inevitable by creating a buffer for myself. I figure if I can get ahead by a couple of days then the down turn in my daily word counts won't put me behind too much. Let's face it, it's hard during any project to see a significant downward trend. Between this writer's block and family obligations at Thanksgiving my chances in gaining my fifty thousand word count go from some to none.
Here's to winning this year, cheers! *shuffles back into her little corner and gets back to her characters held in suspended animation*
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