Wednesday, November 9
Entering week two
So yesterday morning, just after I penned the post below complaining about my failures as a writer etc., I get this mass mail note from the organizers of NaNoWriMo, and it was like an echo of me. Chris writes about week two:
"As you move from the spring wood of Week One into the trying climate of
So please excuse my crybaby act below and know that it at least hasn't come to No. 3. I'm not quitting. Last night, while C was at his drum lesson, I unpacked the laptop and spent an hour at a local coffee shop typing and have now pushed past the 15,000 mark (but only barely).
So: onward!
(Of course, this morning I slept in and wrote nothing but this post. Sigh.)
"As you move from the spring wood of Week One into the trying climate of
Week Two, one or all of the following are likely to happen:
1) The fun, good-time feel of the first week will evaporate.
2) You will decide that your book is a miserable failure, that you are a
creative fraud, and that novels are best left to novelists.
3) You will put 1 and 2 together, and decide to cut your losses and drop
out now while the getting is good and the fall TV season is still
relatively new. "
So please excuse my crybaby act below and know that it at least hasn't come to No. 3. I'm not quitting. Last night, while C was at his drum lesson, I unpacked the laptop and spent an hour at a local coffee shop typing and have now pushed past the 15,000 mark (but only barely).
So: onward!
(Of course, this morning I slept in and wrote nothing but this post. Sigh.)
