The beginning of
the month you find yourself with a blank page, your fertile valley full of
ideas and possibilities (characters, settings, plot twists), and the summit you
need to reach is 50,000 words.
Of course, any
reasonable person understands this is insanity.
Some of us ignore
that little fact and move forward, convinced we can do it. It’s not impossible!
And so we write like lunatics, we miss on precious beauty sleep, we eat like
starving artists, we consume quintuple our average intake of caffeine, we live
and breathe our novels.
I took an idea I
loved but wasn’t quite working. I trashed plot points that were going nowhere,
I rewrote scenes that I thought could be salvaged, I redressed some characters,
I introduced characters I did not know were part of the story and some took
over their own fates within it.
This is the
beginning of a fantastic voyage! Of course, I hope that the final result is
well worth a read, but the writing has been an excellent adventure.
In the meantime, I
relish the accomplishment and encourage my fellow novelists to write, write,
write until they reach their 50K. I await with pom-poms at the end of the line,
cheering them on.
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