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Dec 6 2012

1000 words a day

Well, so far this week I am still trying to keep my nano objectivity. I was hoping to write the 1500 a day, but it is a struggle without the other people egging me on. So, I have decided that I am happy with 1000 a day.

At this rate I am still hoping to finish this month. That is a more realistic goal I think for myself.

Weekends are planned, so can’t really get much in there, although I would love to sit and write for 10 hours like I did a couple of weeks ago. Not going to happen in December, party month. And also my birthday. 🙂

What are your goals this month then? anyone?

I have also been a little easier on myself regarding time. I am allowed to go and visit others blogs, and I am allowed to read and comment. So this will help I hope in contacting other like-minded people, so hopefully getting to know others will help keep me on track. At least that is the plan.

Oh, and early nights are nice… reading before bed is just bliss. I had missed that.

 

Night all. x

Dec 1 2012

The goal

I’ve had a couple of days of just pottering about with the writing and this morning we went out to get a little shopping so I didn’t get to do as much as I wanted.

However, I was quite impressed with today’s output.  1500 words… taking my total to 44,500

More for the creativeness of it than the word count. Having characters inside a whole story world come to life and make their own decisions is just amazing.

The TSK world is solid, plotted and planned. But, there is still room for characters to pop and come alive.

That happened today with a character who is in the series, but hasn’t yet appeared in the novel. It was totally enlightening.

I now have had to set myself another goal. Now that nanowrimo is technically over and my novel isn’t finished, it would be so easy for me to procrastinate December away and not get it done. I want to get it done however for my birthday weekend. 15th of Dec.

So, writing 1500 words a day and I should meet my target. I should have this part of the puzzle done and dusted. Will it be easy? No… because these characters are alive, thinking and feeling.

I guess I will have to see what happens… it is just so exciting though.

Once I have it finished, I am going to take a little break, print it out and then start the editing/organizing process.

🙂

 

Nov 28 2012

Writing over stress

So, yeah I managed to get the 50k done, and I am glad that I had nano to focus on.

 

Been a very stressful weekend to be honest and few days to be honest. And I didn’t blog about it before, in case well you know. Employers spy on everything nowadays. My other half was suspended on friday  from work, pending an investigation into ticket irregularities.

 

To cut a long story short, he’s a bus driver and he takes kids to and from school. He’s been in the job for 16 years and has never had a bad thing happen to him. Till Friday, when he had some inspectors on.

 

Kids are kids and they love to bunk on… but they don’t realize that without a ticket and then  them lying to the  ticket inspector saying they paid the driver, that they can get the driver into lots of trouble and of course the driver could lose his job.

 

Well it was very stressful, it wasn’t his fault, but thankfully at present he still has his job.

 

Nanowriomo has helped me deal with this over the weekend. Instead of driving me up the wall, I’ve focused on the story, wrote a lot and kept myself sane.

 

So a big thank you.

 

I am in the process of calming down. We’re okay, we will be okay. It has just been very, very hard.

 

I’ve managed to write some more today, I do want to finish this novel. 🙂 So onwards. I’ll keep you posted.

 

D x

Nov 24 2012

The final week!

EEEK!!!!

Only just realized today that I only have 6 days left to meet my target. So, pushing on through that wall wasn’t good.

We had some pretty bad news yesterday, which defo hasn’t helped the mojo, but I managed to get on with it and have reached 38k today almost 4000 words. I am pretty happy.

The funeral has been dealt with, I interjected a little fun afterwards to bring my remaining characters around and now we’re just had the birth of their heir 🙂 So all is good in my writing world at present.

Now, I am back at the exciting action stuff and not so much the ‘sad’ bits, so as the excitement builds my writing fingers take over.

If I can get over the 40k tomorrow, then I know I don’t have to push myself too much through the week. I need to get this out of the way, and hope that the ‘other crap’ will be dealt with on monday. 😦

Anyway, this was just a quick one, late now and I need something to drink and some sleep. So a nice vodka and coke, some nuts and a cuddle with the cat for a while will help. The other half is playing snooker in the local club, so I’ve had a bit of peace and quiet for a change. Nice…

Thanks to all who follow me, speak soon.

Dawn x

Nov 23 2012

Hitting that wall!!!

 

So, you all know that I am on a nanowrimo mission. To complete 50k in a month. Although my novel will be much higher than that. I am thinking more along the lines of 80-90k. I guess we’ll see. Being a script writer by trade, its tough to let the creative side out, so I know I will need to add in a lot more ‘descriptive stuff’ for it to be classed as a novel yet.

 

I’ve blogged this week about killing characters and funeral. Which I’ve managed to get my head around. At least for the most part.

But for the last couple of days I’ve really struggled with the word count. I’ve hit the proverbial ‘wall’ … it happens in excersise and it can happen with ‘mission impossible’ writing too.

 

So where can I go from here. Well I have to push on to be fair.

 

Although this isn’t a ‘paid’ writing gig, this is a challenge which I accepted and will complete, no matter what.

 

We’ve been discussing ‘writing though’ in one of the groups I frequent. Where one person thinks that you shouldn’t push yourself and write ‘crap’ others like myself think that discipline and writing have to work hand in hand. It isn’t about ‘pushing through and writing crap’ it is about pushing through knowing that your heart isn’t in it, but that you will and can complete on time.

 

After all, what producer or director would ever hire you if you can’t push through a little ‘pain’ and get on with the job.

 

So, this weekend might be a tough one. I am just shy of 34k, I am hoping that I can push onwards and more towards the 40k, after all we’re not long now till the end of the month and the whole nano challenge.

 

I will keep you informed, and hope that I can do this. Just need to find my mojo again. Fingers crossed for me. 🙂

 

Dawn x