It's only 10:30. I still have time to write and get in my page for the day.
Right?
Shit, it's just me and you. I think it counts. I know my goal is to write first thing in the AM, but I woke up at 6:20 today and was out of the house in under 2 hours. After getting myself ready, helping husband and stepson get ready, making sure we all ate, and had everything we needed. I can excuse myself for that.
Then I had to be on the road for a couple hours. After that, we were on foot around Charlotte, NC. Not much opportunity for hauling around a laptop, getting an internet connection, and writing.
That doesn't mean I haven't thought about writing. I updated my website and I've been rolling around where I'm currently at in my new book project. It's a really weird, almost superfluous chapter. Well, yes and no. It's important in that it introduces the best friend of the protagonist and it lays out some plot, but I feel like it's very boring. I just keep reminding myself that not every chapter has to be exciting and full of action.
I do pray, however, that I can make said chapter flow better. I want it to read well and I just don't feel like it reads as well as chapter one. I'm really annoyed with myself for finishing chapter one and making myself start fresh on chapter two. If NaNo this year taught me anything, it taught me to stop in the middle of a chapter, paragraph, or sentence.
It taught me other things, too. Like how important understanding characters can be. Even if you don't understand them right away, try to before you need something really important out of them. My NaNo novel hit a wall because I came to realize a character was really important, but I knew nothing about him. The novel is still just sitting there, so hopeful and full of potential, but nothing is happening because I can't get a read on that character.
Maybe someday.
Maybe soon.
If I do things right.
Right?
Shit, it's just me and you. I think it counts. I know my goal is to write first thing in the AM, but I woke up at 6:20 today and was out of the house in under 2 hours. After getting myself ready, helping husband and stepson get ready, making sure we all ate, and had everything we needed. I can excuse myself for that.
Then I had to be on the road for a couple hours. After that, we were on foot around Charlotte, NC. Not much opportunity for hauling around a laptop, getting an internet connection, and writing.
That doesn't mean I haven't thought about writing. I updated my website and I've been rolling around where I'm currently at in my new book project. It's a really weird, almost superfluous chapter. Well, yes and no. It's important in that it introduces the best friend of the protagonist and it lays out some plot, but I feel like it's very boring. I just keep reminding myself that not every chapter has to be exciting and full of action.
I do pray, however, that I can make said chapter flow better. I want it to read well and I just don't feel like it reads as well as chapter one. I'm really annoyed with myself for finishing chapter one and making myself start fresh on chapter two. If NaNo this year taught me anything, it taught me to stop in the middle of a chapter, paragraph, or sentence.
It taught me other things, too. Like how important understanding characters can be. Even if you don't understand them right away, try to before you need something really important out of them. My NaNo novel hit a wall because I came to realize a character was really important, but I knew nothing about him. The novel is still just sitting there, so hopeful and full of potential, but nothing is happening because I can't get a read on that character.
Maybe someday.
Maybe soon.
If I do things right.
