Last Week of NaNoWriMo

This is it...

 

The final four days of NaNoWriMo.

 

And I'm behind on my word count...again.

 

But it's okay becaues I still have four days.  And if I can write 3000 words everyday for the next four days, then I will reach and surpass my goal of 50,000.

 

3000 words/day is not that hard.  At least, that's what I keep telling myself.

 

This month has been amazing for me as far as writing goes.  For the longest time, I was in a writing slump that I wasn't sure I'd ever climb out of.  And now I look at my 38,000+ partial manuscript and I know that I've done it.  Sure, my novel is far from completion, but 38,000 words is still something to be excited about.  And believe me--I am.  yes, this last week was somewhat difficult with so much going on, but I won't let that take away from how much I've already accomplished. 

 

These last four days are going to be hard.  I've already set my dvr to record all my shows coming on this week and have resigned myself to the fact that I won't see sunshine (partly because it's cloudy out and supposed to rain) until I reach my goal. 

 

So for all you NaNoWriMo participants still struggling to make your word count...keep going!  You still FOUR days to make it and you can get there!

 

To all of you NaNoWriMo participants that are just about to meet your goal--or to those who have surpassed it already--congratulations!  And don't stop at just 50,000! Keep going!  See how far November can take you!

 

Good luck!

 

Megg

 

 



Thought for the Day

"I love deadlines.  I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."  Douglas Adams

This one's for you.

You know who you are.

Deadline is Soon!!

June will be here before I know it and I am diligently writing to meet my deadline.  I realize I have not been keeping up with posting my progress, but I have been in the zone and writing all I can.  I did stumble on a problem while writing, one that I'm still trying to work through.

There is a love triangle in my story, and when I first started writing and sketching out the ideas for the book, I was certain which character the leading lady would end up with in the end.  But now, as I delve deeper into the storyline, I'm no longer sure that that is the ending I want for her.

I discussed this with a friend of mine (the same one who is making sure I don't find a way to weasel out of my June deadline) and he had a simple solution--a coin toss.  I started to tell him that there was no way I was going to leave the ending of my book and the of my characters in the hands of a coin toss, but he told me that I wouldn't get my answer by seeing whether the coin landed on heads or tails.  I'd know my answer once I assigned heads and tails to the two leading men and flipped the coin, and while in the air, I would be hoping that it landed on heads (or tails...whichever one my heart truly wanted).  And I realized that as crazy as it was, it was also very smart.

So thanks to this wise piece of advice, I was able to figure out which direction I wanted to take my characters, and my writer's block quickly vanished.  So if you're trying to decide between two options, toss a coin into the air.  If you're not hoping that one side will land over the other, then see if you're disappointed with the result.  Hopefully you can find your answer as easily as I did.

Goal: June

Okay, enough with the goals about word counts and having to write so many words every day, because that's just not working for me.  So, I'm setting a deadline goal and my manuscript has to be done by then and that's that.  And that goal is June.

I told this to one of my friends and his response was, "Great!  Oh wait...do you mean June 1st or June 30th?"  So I made a compromise.  My deadline is June 15th and I fully intend to stick to it.

It doesn't matter if I write 150 words a night or 3000, either way I just have to have 60,000ish words by the middle of June.  And I promise to try to post my progress along the way.

Megg