10,000 Words Into the NaNoWriMo Desert

I did it! I’m over a third of the way to my goal of 30,000 words for NaNoWriMo 2015! I got there dying the famously difficult second week. As someone who’s don’t this before, I can assume, it lives up to the unpleasant hype. It sucks, and I say that without hesitation. the first week is fun and exciting and the ideas flow. It is during the second week when you hit the first snag, or wall, depending on how stuck you find yourself. It’s easy to flail during the second week. It’s easy to quit.

To anyone out there in this state, let me add my voice to the crowd. Don’t quit. Keep writing. It’s worth the pain. For those of you who are looking for advice, I have to say, have a milestone to look forward to and, this matters, when you achieve, throw yourself a mini celebration. It doesn’t matter if it’s 11:07 on a Wednesday, celebrate. You’ve done something awesome.

The Middle-15,000 Words

Somehow, between my writing the post above and posting it, I got here. I’m not quite sure how I pulled it off. It came up quick. And you know what? Writing is fun again. How, well, I decided to break my own rule. For those of you who are just coming to this, I was working on a book before NaNo began and had planned to use all of my 30,000 words in service of it, but ideas come when you’re working. It doesn’t matter if they have nothing to do with what your working on now, they come, and you’d better not piss of the muses by not honoring the ideas they send your way. So, in addition to the book, I’ve started in on other projects. Because why not relax from writing with more writing? I never claimed it was logical, but it works and who and I to argue?