So
National Novel Writing Month? Is not going well. My big amazing goal this weekend was to write 12,000 words and get myself up to 24,000 by today, then write 6,000 more before Tuesday so that I would be up to the 30,000 mark by the beginning of week four.
Over the weekend, I wrote 1,777 words. I know, I suck. My grand total is nearing 14,000 and I have very few writing days left to get to the 50,000 mark. I need to make it. I cannot fail at this. I did it last year and I must do it again.
I'm debating how I will motivate myself though. By this time last year, my outline was done and I knew what the big culminating scene would be. That was motivation enough to finish. This year, I have no outline. In fact, I have no idea what's going to happen in the next scene. In fact, I don't even really HAVE scenes. I'm just writing.
So, I'm issuing a call for help. Ways you can help:
1. Leave me comments on my blog or somewhere on the NaNoWriMo site (
my profile) "encouraging" me to get in gear, or just outright yelling at me to move my butt.
2. Give me ideas. Do you have a great story from your past that you'd like to see in print? Do you have little plot bunnies floating around in your head that you could contribute? Specifically, I'm looking for a motivation for one of my main characters to have left her home on the west coast and taken a few years to travel to the east coast.
3. Tell me
your wordcount. I really need the competition. (By the same token, if your wordcount is lower than mine, just keep it to yourself. Heehee.)
Ok, onward to the NaNoWriMo winners' circle!
EDIT: Special thanks to
kennethlove for giving me a better title. The next great American novel is now entitled
Free Time. Thanks ken!
ANOTHER EDIT: Are any of you interested in reading the blasted thing? I'd be willing to post it somewhere super secret and give you the password if you want to see it.