This morning I wrote 1,070. That's only 10487 words so far but it's getting there.
I spent all day yesterday in the garage with my stepmother cleaning up the garage and organizing seven boxes for storage and a large set of piles for donation/selling purposes not to mention the number of bags of garbage and recycling! But I spent all day working and did not work on my writing like I should. And when I was at my computer, I started cleaning the room around my computer only to find a much missed computer program that I added to my newer laptop. Add stress of trying to decide if my computer was hacked, downloading and running spyware software. I was exhausted and went to bed around midnight.
So, when I woke up at 8, I was relieved to get over a thousand words accomplished let alone pick up my bedroom and watch a little Firefly.
Unfortunately, I used my new word count as a reason to go out and reward myself. I purchased a few items from a very busy grocery store and came home to attempt to make cake pops.
So, as they freeze up a little more, I sit with my roommate and hope to add at least another thousand words to my count, fight my sleepiness & catch up on American Horror Story: Asylum.
Good luck, writers.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
What If You Hate Your MC?
Day 9 of Nanowrimo
Writing goal: write as much this weekend has humanly possible.
Words so far today: 1,046 words and counting...
End of day: 9,417 words so far...
It's insane how difficult it is to write when you hate your main character. Mine is a cynical bitch that pretty much hates people and has no faith in relationships--friendship or romantic. I don't even know how she got written either! I know I've been going through a re-break of a break up with my ex and my current flame/new best friend is gone for six months. But I didn't think I would be so disgusted by relationships. But we write what we feel and maybe I pulled from my subconscious and heightened it a little to make it work.
It always is hard to write when you feel trapped. What did I do? I asked for help from my fellow writers. I posted in the forums on the Nanowrimo website. I asked for support. And I got it! Do I push through it? Do I give up? Most people said I should kill off the character if she made me so unhappy. Others said that I should keep going. And I did.
And now I'm over a thousand words today.
Not as far as I need to be but it's still going.
Writing goal: write as much this weekend has humanly possible.
Words so far today: 1,046 words and counting...
End of day: 9,417 words so far...
It's insane how difficult it is to write when you hate your main character. Mine is a cynical bitch that pretty much hates people and has no faith in relationships--friendship or romantic. I don't even know how she got written either! I know I've been going through a re-break of a break up with my ex and my current flame/new best friend is gone for six months. But I didn't think I would be so disgusted by relationships. But we write what we feel and maybe I pulled from my subconscious and heightened it a little to make it work.
It always is hard to write when you feel trapped. What did I do? I asked for help from my fellow writers. I posted in the forums on the Nanowrimo website. I asked for support. And I got it! Do I push through it? Do I give up? Most people said I should kill off the character if she made me so unhappy. Others said that I should keep going. And I did.
And now I'm over a thousand words today.
Not as far as I need to be but it's still going.
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