It Looks Like Just A Novel, It Takes Just A Novel, But I Breaks Just Like A Little Story
I wish I could just sit down and pound out 5,000 words in one day like squirrelgirl22 did today but I'm just not able to this year. And my morale is up because I want to write really badly. But I swear I'm writing constipated because when I actually sit down to write I get really distracted. Yesterday night, for example, after I wrote a LiveJournal entry it was only about midnight so I thought I'd write a little more.
And for about 45 minutes, I was really trying to come up with something. 444 words later I found myself on myspace.com yoinking a meme from nikhak and posting it in my blog over there.
It's a constant mental struggle right now to stay focused. The problem isn't that I have nothing to write, it's that I've been writing and putting off so many other things. For example, this morning, I could have skipped out on watching the Fulham/Middlesbrough match at The Globe but I went anyway - and the kicker is my friend Tom didn't even show up. I really only went because I wanted all the information on a road trip to London Fulham USA is planning to take at the end of January. I guess I should get on the boards and look up the details myself. But I feel as though I'm cheating on the nanowrimo.org boards doing that. :)
I actually watched a movie, something that I haven't done in quite some time. Tonight's selection was "Sling Blade." During the month of November I try not to watch good movies because as has been said elsewhere, they are soul suckers those good movies. Even if you keep in mind that the screenplays were re-written dozens of times before the finished product appeared on the screen the thoughts of "why couldn't I write that?" crosses your mind.
2004 NaNoWriMo: 32,953 words
2005 NaNoWriMo: 31,842 words
incendiarymind: 31,842 words
reliantfc3: 26,120 words
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And for about 45 minutes, I was really trying to come up with something. 444 words later I found myself on myspace.com yoinking a meme from nikhak and posting it in my blog over there.
It's a constant mental struggle right now to stay focused. The problem isn't that I have nothing to write, it's that I've been writing and putting off so many other things. For example, this morning, I could have skipped out on watching the Fulham/Middlesbrough match at The Globe but I went anyway - and the kicker is my friend Tom didn't even show up. I really only went because I wanted all the information on a road trip to London Fulham USA is planning to take at the end of January. I guess I should get on the boards and look up the details myself. But I feel as though I'm cheating on the nanowrimo.org boards doing that. :)
I actually watched a movie, something that I haven't done in quite some time. Tonight's selection was "Sling Blade." During the month of November I try not to watch good movies because as has been said elsewhere, they are soul suckers those good movies. Even if you keep in mind that the screenplays were re-written dozens of times before the finished product appeared on the screen the thoughts of "why couldn't I write that?" crosses your mind.
2004 NaNoWriMo: 32,953 words
2005 NaNoWriMo: 31,842 words
incendiarymind: 31,842 words
reliantfc3: 26,120 words
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