wednesday is wearying...
Nov. 4th, 2009 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluecastleIt's day four and I'm hitting the NaNo wall already. I knew I probably wouldn't get my 1600 words in yesterday as I had two meetings after work, but I did manage to bang out 600 plus words, despite being oddly queasy (and writing half of those while the second meeting dragged on).
But the wall for me is that I still don't have a story so I don't really know what to write about ... or rather where to focus my writing.
But I'll go home tonight, and after I make my ersatz pumpkin soup (made with roasted squash as store didn't have actual cooking punkins) and the goat cheese toast that goes with it... and I'll sit in front of little Lola laptop and try and let go of the little imps in my head telling me I'm useless and try and put a bunch of words on the page.
I've been trying out the "story" such as it is from a variety of POV's to see which ones resonate. Really the only one doing it for me so far is the voice of the twelve year old boy himself, but I haven't yet been able to make him tell his story... so far he's 'written' it in his journal. Which, ok, fine, if that's what works, I can do that ... but today's experiment is the grown up boy looking back and telling his story. I have a feeling he'll end up telling it in a journal entry :D
Anyway... nothing has gone right at work today ... there is grumpy-ness all around me ... and I am riddled with self-doubt. Yep. It's Wednesday!
But the wall for me is that I still don't have a story so I don't really know what to write about ... or rather where to focus my writing.
But I'll go home tonight, and after I make my ersatz pumpkin soup (made with roasted squash as store didn't have actual cooking punkins) and the goat cheese toast that goes with it... and I'll sit in front of little Lola laptop and try and let go of the little imps in my head telling me I'm useless and try and put a bunch of words on the page.
I've been trying out the "story" such as it is from a variety of POV's to see which ones resonate. Really the only one doing it for me so far is the voice of the twelve year old boy himself, but I haven't yet been able to make him tell his story... so far he's 'written' it in his journal. Which, ok, fine, if that's what works, I can do that ... but today's experiment is the grown up boy looking back and telling his story. I have a feeling he'll end up telling it in a journal entry :D
Anyway... nothing has gone right at work today ... there is grumpy-ness all around me ... and I am riddled with self-doubt. Yep. It's Wednesday!
