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Post by Kathleen on Nov 12, 2010 0:56:00 GMT -5
I'm about four thousand words behind, I hate my writing, the story is going nowhere, and this sounds just about right for week two. ^_^
The problem with getting behind in wordcount is that it's a vicious circle. I get behind, so I don't feel like writing, so I get behind more... and on into infinity.
Plus I just realized I have Asher and Amy and I was about to have Janet and Gillan, and I need to plan my names better. Gillan is now Gabriel, but something will have to be done about Amy. A pity, because I really like her name. It suits her. ;_;
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Post by Kathleen on Nov 15, 2010 0:39:15 GMT -5
22k. My list of complaints is long, my joy is virtually nonexistent. Cheers.
“Won’t it be Gaelan?” I ask, breathing hard through my nose, which I can barely feel anymore. I wonder if you can get frostbite in dreams.
“Or it could be a Yeti,” Asher says cheerily from behind me.
“No, really,” I say.
“No, really,” Asher says grimly.
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Post by Avery on Nov 15, 2010 0:41:33 GMT -5
Kath, love. I think it's so interesting how we seem to always be at the same pace as each other. EVERY YEAR. I think last year we even finished on the same day. This year I'm a little behind, as are you. We are, in fact, within 1k of each other. 'Tis like we have a strange connected muse. XD
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Post by Kathleen on Nov 16, 2010 1:17:00 GMT -5
We are like NaNo-soul buddies! =D ... or, or something. I remember this! xD Ugh, it is dreadful being a little behind. I can't seem to... quite... catch up for the past few days. It's all my fault, I know, for not writing on one day, but I just didn't have tiime. ;_; 24.8k. *flops in exhaustion* Mondays are my busiest days, but Tuesdays are one of my least, so hopefully tomorrow I can get caught up and possibly even a bit of a buffer for future busy-days. The fact that at the moment, I hate my writing, I hate the story, and I hate the characters, is not helping.
“Rats?” I squeak.
“Gaelan,” Gaelan’s husky voice comes through the darkness, dryly.
“Gaelan?” Janet moves past me, distracted. I smell a hint of rose perfume and then she’s next to Gaelan, crouching over him. “Are you okay?”
“Oh, great, the doctor’s injured,” Asher mutters under his breath, scooting over to sit next to me. The light isn’t enough for me to properly see our surroundings; it seems like some kind of cave. The floor feels like dirt, and I can reach out and touch a wall on my right, which is rough and stony.
“I’m fine, woman,” Gaelan growls, presumably at Janet.
“Don’t be rude to your girlfriend,” Asher calls out mockingly. I can only see the dim shape of his face next to mine.
“Do stressful situations always make you an ass?” I snap at him. Asher laughs without humor.
“You’re one to talk. Considered getting off my legs?”
“With pleasure, your majesty.” I’m none too gentle finding the floor to stand up.
“Stop arguing. You two sound like five-year-olds,” Amy says. She sounds like she’s still lying down. Her voice comes from somewhere along the floor. I lean forward and make out her shape, lying on her back. “Has anyone noticed it’s really dark?”
“Yes, thanks for that,” Asher says sarcastically.
“Oh, shut up.” Amy’s voice changes as she levers herself off the floor. “Where are we?”
“A dream, you idiot.”
I elbow Asher about where I think his stomach is, and he hisses an annoyed, “Ow!”
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Post by Celestial on Nov 16, 2010 1:52:37 GMT -5
D= *huggles* Keep going Kathkitty. You're an excellent writer and even though the story may not seem like much now, it is worth fighting for even though right now it may not seem like it. Just give it that one extra push and you'll have caught up. It doesn't even have to be much, just spread your extra words over the month if you wish.
^_^ Good luck!
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Post by Rikku on Nov 16, 2010 21:49:27 GMT -5
<3 You can do it. Your story is shiny.
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Post by Kathleen on Nov 16, 2010 23:31:38 GMT -5
Thank you both. <3
I fear, however, that the problem is that my story is not shiny, not worth it, and certainly not much.
27.6k. At least I'm caught-up, and I didn't even randomly insert an instruction manual to do it. Things I didn't plan happened, and none of them are interesting things that make you go, 'hey, I didn't consider that before, but you know what? That turns the story a really cool way!'
They're very, very boring things.
I can't remember ever feeling this down about NaNo, which is kind of worrying. D= I wanted to be all, 'I love my story it's so much fun to write look at my awesome funny characters!'
And it is so depressing to read other people's excerpts and try not to compare them to mine. ;_;
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Post by Rikku on Nov 17, 2010 0:08:11 GMT -5
That's ... yeah, that's pretty much exactly how I felt a few thousand words before where you are now. xD Right down to very much hating the story and wondering why this wasn't as fun as NaNo used to be. Which was because I was pinning too much on it, which is probably not your problem, but ... the solution might be the same? Sleep a bit, maybe eat something delicious, listen to music, read some fun pretty story, try not to think about NaNo - and maybe you'll actually want to write, afterwards. Forcing yourself to write when you have no wish to just makes bad writing.
... Or it might be you have a completely different problem and this is no help at all. xD; Umsorry. But you can do it. And if you can't that's fine and it doesn't make you any less a writer or less awesome. But you can.
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Post by Kathleen on Nov 19, 2010 0:15:10 GMT -5
The problem is, if I don't force myself to write, I never will. D= Unfortunately. So, bad writing it is! All the way! No, no, it was definitely helpful, thank you so much. =D You are completely motivational, and I am inspired! ... I wish my inspiration boosted my wordcount more, but oh well. I found a fun song to write some breath-holding scenes (or suspenseful scenes I suppose is the other term), and with that things are scrambly and weird and moving on to better and bigger scenes! ^_^ I would post an excerpt, except everything for the past 28k has been melodramatic rambling that's not even humorous, so I think I'd really rather not. To spare any innocent bystanders possible trauma and all those nasty legal ramifications. So instead you get... this:
I freeze, one foot suspended in the air. I look down at my sneaker, dangling above the tile floor. The sneaker I’ve worn down every hallway in my high school with. The sneaker that's traversed the dusty stage of the auditorium. The sneaker that's stepped in preserved crayfish and narrowly avoided an acid-bath. The sneaker that’s been to the grocery store and the Laundromat and to the amusement park. This sneaker has been to Florida to visit my grandparents and gotten muddy in Baltimore, Maryland. This sneaker has chewing gum from a convenience store in Salt Lake City, Utah. This sneaker is gritty with dream-sand and damp from a pass through a dream-snow. Now it has dust from a forgotten house in a dream-city. This is one heck of a shoe.
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Post by Amneiger on Nov 19, 2010 2:55:50 GMT -5
Does the shoe have magical powers?  |
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Post by Kathleen on Nov 19, 2010 20:56:59 GMT -5
Does the shoe have magical powers? You know, I kind of wish it did. Maybe my subconscious is trying to tell me something. =D |
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Post by Kathleen on Nov 20, 2010 0:22:34 GMT -5
32k. Right on track for scraping by.
And I also wrote out how the rest of it will go, in some detail, so I have some kind of skewed outline thingy to work from, which is kinda nice. ^_^
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Post by Kathleen on Nov 23, 2010 1:45:22 GMT -5
I spent the two hours my writing teacher lectured on... something... writing 1.5k by hand. I feel productive and happy. =D
Even if it did take extra time to type it up, it allowed me to get caught up after falling behind again because Saturday was completely out for writing.
This horrible slip-a-little-behind, catch-up, slip-a-little-behind thing is quite stressful, considering I've never had to do this before.
I will be able to do this. I will.
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Post by Rikku on Nov 23, 2010 19:47:48 GMT -5
You will! ^_^
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Post by Kathleen on Nov 26, 2010 23:40:47 GMT -5
I totally will. =D This was a day of 4k (and also, apparently of rhyming) to make up for Thanksgiving, which happens to not really provide much writing time. It was grueling. But I did it! So now here I am at 45k. It was also a day of interesting similes, as if to make up for a lack of ones earlier on. Irritatingly, people keep trying to read over my shoulder today, which is not helping at all with my concentration. I have tried to explain nicely that what I'm writing is not fit for human eyes, but they persist in looking wounded and wronged as they slink off. |
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