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I posted a short wordpress post update with an overview of the themes I've previously mentioned with the title Day 22. IDEK what I'm doing any more. Edited it, hopefully before too many people noticed.
I'm starting to feel that "don't know if I'm bored or overwhelmed" feeling. It's mostly the latter. That sense of dread when I think about writing certain scenes/not knowing how to join up existing scenes. I deal with this by writing something else instead, a scene I do want to write, for example.
I'm a little behind but I'm pleased overall with my progress, though I'm concerned that even if I win NaNo there is no way this book will be done. I don't just mean it will need editing, I mean there is still going to be story to tell. Which is fine, but makes it a little more daunting. As if it might never be done.
I know I had the same problem with the novel currently referred to as "Juliet" - I never imagined I'd make it to 50k and it was "the novella" for a long time. But when I'd got the first very rough beginning-middle-end put together at last I could see where the story needed to be expanded and the wordcount shot up by the end of what was almost a re-write more than an edit. I know can do this, and I know can do it more easily now I'm not relying on Word to organise my scenes.
In fact writing scenes out of order, which is how I mostly work anyway, has been what has kept me going this far. Occasionally I can see where two scenes meet up, but I still have a lot of 'unsorted' scenes to put together into a coherent narrative later.
One week to go. I need to keep going and not give up now.
I'm starting to feel that "don't know if I'm bored or overwhelmed" feeling. It's mostly the latter. That sense of dread when I think about writing certain scenes/not knowing how to join up existing scenes. I deal with this by writing something else instead, a scene I do want to write, for example.
I'm a little behind but I'm pleased overall with my progress, though I'm concerned that even if I win NaNo there is no way this book will be done. I don't just mean it will need editing, I mean there is still going to be story to tell. Which is fine, but makes it a little more daunting. As if it might never be done.
I know I had the same problem with the novel currently referred to as "Juliet" - I never imagined I'd make it to 50k and it was "the novella" for a long time. But when I'd got the first very rough beginning-middle-end put together at last I could see where the story needed to be expanded and the wordcount shot up by the end of what was almost a re-write more than an edit. I know can do this, and I know can do it more easily now I'm not relying on Word to organise my scenes.
In fact writing scenes out of order, which is how I mostly work anyway, has been what has kept me going this far. Occasionally I can see where two scenes meet up, but I still have a lot of 'unsorted' scenes to put together into a coherent narrative later.
One week to go. I need to keep going and not give up now.
