Being held captive
Monday, November 24, 2008
There's no need to call the cops; handcuffs aren't involved. Although some people like that. ;)
There I was, hitting some significant word-count action on NaNo, when suddenly another WIP, which has been sitting around waiting for me to get it it for some revisions, body-slammed me. Next thing I knew, I had worked my way through three chapters without even realizing it.
So I kept at it, without a second thought to the NaNo WIP.
Do you feel sorry for the abandoned work in progress? It has no feelings...
Actually, I'm delighted with the 15,000 words I created in just over two weeks. That's pretty freaking awesome, coming from a woman who seems to take forever to work her way through a novel.
Is it wrong of me to walk away and admit NaNo defeat before the deadline? I don't think so. What it did for me was to put some scenes down on paper that had been banging around in my head for the past few months. Now that I have the setting and characters down, I need to dig deep.
Yeah, the icky stuff that terrifies me.
And here I thought being held captive by a manuscript was scary enough. ;)
Gotta keep this short, the novel is cracking the whip again.
There I was, hitting some significant word-count action on NaNo, when suddenly another WIP, which has been sitting around waiting for me to get it it for some revisions, body-slammed me. Next thing I knew, I had worked my way through three chapters without even realizing it.
So I kept at it, without a second thought to the NaNo WIP.
Do you feel sorry for the abandoned work in progress? It has no feelings...
Actually, I'm delighted with the 15,000 words I created in just over two weeks. That's pretty freaking awesome, coming from a woman who seems to take forever to work her way through a novel.
Is it wrong of me to walk away and admit NaNo defeat before the deadline? I don't think so. What it did for me was to put some scenes down on paper that had been banging around in my head for the past few months. Now that I have the setting and characters down, I need to dig deep.
Yeah, the icky stuff that terrifies me.
And here I thought being held captive by a manuscript was scary enough. ;)
Gotta keep this short, the novel is cracking the whip again.
posted by Bonnie Staring at 9:36 PM
4 Comments:
Manuscripts always body slam me, and you're doing awesome!!
Did you mean to say, "the novel is cracking the WIP"
Anyway, enough puns. I would only feel bad about abandoning NaNo if somebody were paying me to finish or if I had a habit of not finishing projects that I started. So, yeah, I would feel bad about it.
You on the other hand may be excused this time.
Hey - congrats on that productivity, no matter what the wip.
Sounds like a textbook case of Stockholm Syndrome to me!
(google it)
Thanks Amy! :::waves to the belly bump:::
Mike! Thank you for putting that pun on paper, so to speak. I was sorely tempted! And while I appreciate you excusing me, but I don't want to turn this into an "excuse of the week." Ack!
You know, Wylie, I didn't realize that being held captive meant you could travel.
:::whistles and twirls a finger in her blonde hair:::
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