1,577 Nano Words Down — 48,423 to Go
I spent two hours last night writing. It was a real struggle to get started and to push through. I’m pretty sure it’s all crap, but it’s my crap. Heck, it’s even my old baggage. 
One thing that I suddenly realized is that while there are many fellow Nanos out there who’ve planned for this and made outlines and character sketches and I was feeling overwhelmed by the lack of those things, I am a blogger. I took a trip in the way-back machine to my old pre-Maine blog and started skimming. I’ve copied into a file the relavent posts from mid-June 2003 to the end of the blog in March 2004 right before the move. Now, I don’t plan to just cut and paste from those blog posts — that wouldn’t be fair. However, it certainly works as a reminder of what happened and the chain of events that lead to my unfortunate involuntary termination and the resulting depression and events that followed. Later, I’ll go back to the beginning of this blog to refresh my memories.
I feel like those posts are a security blanket.
Yet, I still feel like this is going to be a shitty novel…but I keep trying to remind myself that not only does it not have to be a great novel but no one ever has to read it. It’s about actually drowning in writing again.
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on November 2, 2005 at 11:35 am
Tamara said:
All hail shitty novels! They rock!