. . . is in full swing and I am up 18,970 words plus 21 pages of long hand
from today alone. My characters have left land and begun their seafaring
chapter. Next they’ll have an adventure in a floating fortress.
Since I threw out
my original concept and most of the ideas that I’d started with, I am writing the
story as the characters are living it and I have no idea what the end game is.
This is a deranged way to write a novel, but NaNoWriMo is an insane idea to
begin with, why go easy on the challenge?
Besides, if the
story starts to stall, I can always send my heroine to join a proto-Victorian
circus. That ought to jack things into high gear!
One of my writing
buddies sent me a note that her family thinks she is nuts. I assured her that
she is indeed nuts.
NaNoWriMo is deranged, but when it is good (and words are flowing,
even if it makes no sense and you've resorted to introducing a ninja) the
creative high is priceless.
In the end, it's just a matter of
honoring your commitment to yourself -- within reason, as real life sometimes
intrudes, posing a challenge and meeting it, and just having fun.
It’s a seemingly
impossible task. That alone makes it worth it for the competitive ones among
us. But that is not the point. It is a Zen experience. It is about the journey.
You will learn many things about yourself, but the best thing you can learn is
to condition yourself to meet an uphill battle without fear.
If you haven’t
started yet and would like to join us, I highly recommend it.
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