It’s down to nitty gritty time,but I’m not giving up. Somewhere along the line, this story has began speaking to me, and I’ve let go enough to write it down. Too often,this month and with other stories, I worry about minutiae. A firend of mine that also does this Nano thing gave me the best persperctive yet on the whole process. She does it because she says its nice to have the raw material to work with when it’s over.
Raw material is what I’ve got, in fact, I’ve already decided one significant plot development has to change, but will probably go back and do that after the deadline. Right now, I want the story out of me. I have less than 34 hours to write 20,ooo words. Once again, that seems less than daunting, and I am going for it.
When I read these posts later, they always seem so cheerful and unrealistic, as if I’m my own cheerleader, maybe I am. What I want from this is a bit of a record of the process I went through to hopefully finishing this story,and soI have it.
Maybe the most important thing that is happening right now is that I feel like a writer again. The muscles are being flexed and even taxed. It’s been a while. My girlfriend has never seen this, and is probably a little perplexed as I tell her what I’m trying to get done.
