I did it! I did it! I stayed on my behind, for a month and typed until I had over 50,000 words. I did it! I did it! That was 115 pages of single spaced type. And my story stayed in one main setting. For awhile, I lagged WAY behind and thought if push comes to shove, I'll completely change theme/plot (although, I'm not completely sure I'd call what I have a plot).
I'm still not very disciplined in writing every day. Wow. I struggle with that. On most weekdays, I didn't write much. I procrastinated and wandered off. I used the excuse that I'm too drained from work. During the weekends, I would sit and do almost nothing but write. Then I'd end up behind in my responsibilities at home. If I want to be a writer, I think that would have to change. I'll have to be more disciplined. I did find that if I wrote closer to every day, the characters were fresher in my mind, and were easier to write about.
Wow, I did it! More than FIFTY THOUSAND words. It'll take ALOT of re-writing to become publishable. Some of the characters are way too close to real people at work. But, I did come up with some purely fictional characters. The most fictional and biggest bunch of characters I've ever written came out of this exercise. And that is an excellent feeling! I don't know if anyone understands what I mean, but instead of being a memoir-like "fiction" based on friends and family... too close to the truth for publishing, this story for the most part is much more fictional. And I'm very proud of that.
2 comments:
Congratulations! I didn't participate in NaNo, but I was a cheerleader for several bloggers who did. It definitely takes perseverance, and always is worth it. A great accomplishment!
I always knew you could do it lady!!!! So very proud of you for making it to 50K in 30 days!!!! With just a little bit of faith and hard work we can do anything :) ((((HUGS)))
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