From the monthly archives: November 2006
Let me just say: I’M HALFWAY THROUGH 50,000 WORDS! Praise God! The next 25,000 words won’t be easy, but I can do this! :)
Okay, excerpt time again! :) This particular excerpt is from Chapter 5. :) Click the “Read the rest of the entry” link. Comments are open, but please bear in mind that most of the words here are due to the pressure of having a 50k word count by the end of the month. So forgive any run on sentences or whatever grammatical error there may be; I’ll deal with those after I’m done. And be gentle on the comments. :D
Hello. :) It’s been a while since I posted. Yes, I’m still alive and I’m procrastinating writing through blogging. Okay, I’m ahead of schedule, actually, but I still need to write because I want to finish early, but now I’m blogging. :P
Anyway, my story has lost its seemingly boring quality, but now I feel like I can’t convey my ideas right. Like I chose the wrong point of view, like I don’t have the proper “chicklit tone”, and all that. You know, those kinds of things. I feel like I’ve written seven chapters of crap, and that the story is too slow, like my grammar is all mixed up, that no one would ever read the drivel I am writing.
What a way to put down myself, eh?
But because this is NaNoWriMo, and its spirit is to just write…I will write. No matter how blah my story might sound (see, I can’t even write proper blogs anymore). I need to stop myself from re-reading and sometimes editing the scene I wrote before I start writing…that just makes me feel even more that what I wrote is crap.
I’ll survive. :P I’ll finish this. I’m almost halfway! :)
On other news, work this week was a whole lot busier than the last few weeks. Monday left me with my head aching, but the rest of the week went better, with free lunch, a seminar and some other things. I bet I’m going to have more work to do by next week, and I still have to fix some other things there. Haha. I’m okay. I’m getting used to it. Wait…scratch that. I get my strength from Him, the One who enables me.
Wohoo.
Forgive me for my lack of explanations and scattered thoughts; my brain is focused on Rain and other people in my story. I should stop from going online and just write. I have some new chicklit books here to read in between breaks (thank you so much Marvs!) so I could get the feel of the way I want to write my novel. :P
Excerpt coming tomorrow, or later, when I feel like posting something again. :P
Well. I’m doing much better than the last time. :) I’ve got a lot of sporks, woobies, hugs and chocolates from these people, a lot more ideas and my inner editor has been buried deep in the abyss. :P
Aaaand, here’s a first taste of my NaNo 2006 Novel, Fall Like Rain. :P This is taken from the third chapter. Click the “Read the rest of the entry” link. Comments are open, but please bear in mind that most of the words here are due to the pressure of having a 50k word count by the end of the month. So forgive any run on sentences or whatever grammatical error there may be; I’ll deal with those after I’m done. And be gentle on the comments. :D
My novel still feels flat. X( *kills internal editor*
Yes, friends, no Thursday Thirteen this week or for the next few weeks until November ends because my brain is too wired to focus on anything else but NaNoWriMo (or work). So T13 on refineme.org will return on December. :)
Anyway. MAN. I haven’t budged in my novel. I might have overworked myself yesterday, but I believe in getting a good headstart. Now I still feel some kind of annoyance at how flat my main character seems even after all the planning. :( Rain is still too talkative, and I can’t find a good situation to show and not tell. Argh.
[pep talk] I can do this. I can do this. [/pep talk]
*kills internal editor who resurrected and internal critic who joined him*
Novels are not written by novelists. Novels are written by everyday people who give themselves permission to write novels. Whatever your writing experience, you have a book in you that only you can write. And November is a beautiful month to get it written.
- Chris Baty, NaNoWriMo director
I can do this! I can do this! :)
Is it possible to be burned out for NaNoWriMo on the first day? :(
I’ve written 6000+ words for today and that’s good progress, but I feel like I’m blabbing too much on the first few scenes. Then again, this is NaNo and I’m permitted to blab and blab to reach the word count.
I just feel like Rain (my main character) is being too talkative without showing too much character. I think I talk too much for my main character instead of showing things about my main character’s life.
But I should turn off this inner editor of mine who’s talking to me right now. I should turn it off. Should should should.
Maybe I’m more conscious of my writing because I’m actually using a novelling tool — yWriter — instead of plain old MS Word, which I’ve used for the past two years.
Things should look better for the next days and I need to churn out more creative juices if I want to finish this. And yes, I still have to tie up the plots to make them more solid. Haha. As much as I did a lot of preparation for this year’s NaNo, I feel so unprepared. Maybe it’s because this year, I’m pulling most of the things out of thin air, it’s hard to write without bias.
I can do this! I think I’m going to need to make chapter descriptions by tomorrow or when I have free time that isn’t occupied by work.
And pray, of course. I should not forget that!
Work again tomorrow! At least it’s Thursday. And Friday’s just around the corner. :)
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