finish my NANO novel

This goal has been on my list for what seems like a ridiculously long time. So I’m making a plan. I’m going to print off all my pages and re-read it in a coffee shop on Friday morning; not making any notes or edits, like I’d be tempted to do if I reviewed it on the computer. Then I’m going to go home and write for at least 40 minutes. And then, I’m going to dedicated two 30 minute sessions to the story a week, until it’s finally finished.

I don’t know why this has bit me so firmly and not let go. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I’m just sick of seeing it on here; maybe it has something to do with hanging around writers and artists more frequently. Whatever it is: I just need this story to be done and out of my head. And then I can move on.

It’s been over eight months since I last looked at my unfinished NaNo novel. But scenes from my story have started creeping into my brain as I’m lying in bed before I go to sleep at night. Characters are doing some things that I expected them to, and some things that I didn’t expect them to. I have a little free time with my winter break, so I think I might take my pages with me to coffee one day and start brainstorming again…

I wrote my book for nano. reached the goal, yada yada. but I didn’t have much time at the end of them month, so i wrote a sloppy ending. I really just want to rewrite the ending (this weekend!) so i can make copies of it.

I’ve done NaNo twice now, and I can’t decide which story I want to pursue to the end. And with the next NaNo not to far away, I have to think up another idea, to boot!

Initially for my goal of writing for 10 minutes every day, I wrote longhand in a little scribbler; short stories or whatever. But I didn’t have much motivation to do that. I realized that I was really motivated to keep working on my NaNo novel. It’s been a tough slog: trying to get back into the story with characters I’ve sometimes completely forgotten about, but I worked through a lot of rough patches and yesterday, I wrote for over ten minutes solid, adding new material instead of just re-working awkward stuff that had made me stop working in the first place. It didn’t feel as good as it used to, but it didn’t feel too bad either. So who knows. Maybe this isn’t a lost cause after all.

See other entries regarding NaNoWriMo & Best selling novel – I want this to be a properly finished novel, structure, format everything… and then try and get it published!

I have lost something. The drive, the inspiration, something. January was a no go with the writing. I did write a bit, but my depression got so bad that I was lucky to get up in the morning.

Second of all, I tried writing one day and I forgot the names of most of the characters that I was writing about. Ugh. I still carry the notebook around to write in but I haven’t done any writing so far.

I know that I need to finish this so once again I am going to try to finish writing my novel as well as start writing every day once again. If I do it, it will be a mircle.

All I can do is try at this point in time.

I’d like to finish my 2007 novel. Finish and edit it! AHHH!

December was too hectic for me. I maybe wrote about 5,000 or 6,000 words the whole month. December is hard since I work retail as well as the law firm was getting ready for the end of the year. November was bearable to write everyday, but December became impossible.

I wrote about 160 words today. But starting tomorrow, I am going to write about 1,725 words a day so I can get another 50,000 words down in my novel. I need to finish it so I can start editing it.

My urge has grow very weak in the last 4 weeks about finishing it. Too much heartache, but no enough encouragement to finish what I started. I must finish it because I started it. I can’t start working on another until I have finished this one out. PERIOD!

I believe it is going to be much easier for me since Christmas is finally over. I will just see.

I have this weekend off so that I am going to organize the living area so that it gives off a pleasant feeling of productivity. It is so very cluttered. November was a horrible month with me.

I need to sit down every day and continue you writing every day no matter if it is only a page or it is four pages.

Just need to get motivated again. I moved my framed Certificate into my bedroom so I could look at it every morning to motivate me once again. Nanowrimo might be over, but the story I started is not.

I need to keep going!!