The Trendsetter

At last…

…after three long and miserable weeks, the word count exceeded 50K and I finished my novel. What an experience. It was truly amazing despite all the kicking and screaming of excuses I made along the way to not write.

To Chris, the guy who’s behind all this madness, a big THANK YOU!

Do I have plan for the next year nanoing? Arrgggh…I don’t want to think about it, yet. I need to take a break in December. I still have my next huge task ahead and I’ll write about it in my blog.

Until then, keep writing.

Yay!

My quest to write my 50K novel in one month at NaNoWriMo is going so smoothly I’m starting to feel a bit queasy. So far so good. Knock on wood. For the first week I was stumbling trying to find my writing rhythm. The story went so damn slow I almost gave up. But this is the best thing being a NaNoWriMo participant: my problem or issue, whatever I call it, is not unique. There is nothing special about what I have been experiencing during the first week of writing.

Practically everyone experiences the same problem—slow in starting to write, getting mad at their characters, not feeling like writing—let alone finishing to the end line of 50K words at the end of November. And everybody can vent their issues in the NaNoWriMo forum and get a response.
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Oh for the Lord of Muse.

I know it is coming. I am on Chapter Seven now and it’s starting to go downhill. I’m trying to find each and any excuse imaginable to get away from writing my Nano—you name it— writing content for my blog, writing emails, youtubing, attacking the DH, etc. Yet, I have no choice but to flop into my seat and drag myself to write one more chapter. Remember, it’s only thirty days to write a 50k word novel in NanoWriMo. I am racing against time so I’d better write or die.

Gah! This is crazy yet somehow so far I’ve managed to eke out roughly 1,500 words per chapter. Then it falls apart as I am not as motivated as I was on the first day of Nanoing. I wonder why? It’s not like I’ve never written a novel before. I had just completed my manuscript, but unfortunately it was completed at the end of October when I was planning to join the National Novel Writing Month. So I think it must be writing fatigue that has set in.
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Horaaay!!

Yay! I completed the third revision of my novel and it’s now ready for the next stage. I’m just so excited I finally got it done. And it couldn’t be better timing for my next project—Nanoing on November, 1 - 30.

What? Wait a minute! Did I just say that? Nanoing on Nov. 1? When I don’t even have a clue of what should my next plot is about? Am I going insane?
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