I reached 10,000 words last night! I’m currently sitting on 10,479 and I still have lots more to write. I cant believe I’m 1/5 of the way there! Woah! Do a jig with me!
Going into NaNo, I had no idea what to expect. I was worried, because I wasnt as excited as I kept hearing other people were. I didnt get all jittery, nor did I get all caught up in creating characters, etc. In fact, every time I thought to myself, right, I must get down to it and actually think of a plot! my mind just refused. It wandered, it protested, it hummed Hanson tunes back at me…but it wouldnt think of a plot. By the week before NaNo was scheduled to begin, I was grasping at straws with plots, trawling through Adopt-A-Plot threads looking for inspiration…and got nothing (though the plots I saw were really interesting). I can’t really remember when my first ideas for a basic plot line happened, but even after they happened, I still couldnt get myself to focus on taking it further.
I worried that when November finally arrived, I would sit at my laptop and do nothing but pull faces. I worried that nothing would come to mind and that I’d surely be behind by 4000 words or worse! Not so! In fact, I’m on target and loving every minute of it! The first 10 pages were painful to type, no argument there, but the 7 pages that followed flowed pretty easily…and its all still coming!
Normally I get bored within the first 5-8 pages, but not this time! This time I’m focussed (she says, as she types in her blog, not her novel)! My inner editor is on vacation somewhere and my writing isnt entirely gibberish. I know there are chunks that I’ll reread and say “wtf!” to, but that’s okay!
So, here’s to the first 10k…and moreso, here’s to the next 10k! To my fellow Rhinos (watch this vid to get that haha), I hope your novelling is going well! And if it isnt, introduce a stripper! No kidding! That’s what got my story flowing haha! Hopefully I’ll be seeing y’all at the Write-In tomorrow!
I decided to look for some backgrounds for my laptop (which is solely being used for NaNo Novelling at the moment) and found these:
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