Just wanted to check in regarding my status for NaNoWriMo.
After tomorrow night, (assuming I come home and write) I’ll only need 10,000 more words. That’s about 2,500 words on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, which is totes doable.
However, at this point I kind of feel like I did when I went to the doctor as a child right after I peed. One time the doctor told me to go pee in a cup and I looked at my mom panic sticken and announced that I had already gone, and she just shrugged and said, “you can always squeeze out a little more.”
The story is kind of like that to me. I feel like I already let so much out that I don’t have any more, but I have to keep squeezing and pushing out the stuff that might not be ready to come out yet.
So.
That’s a great analogy.
Anyway, I’m still feeling accomplished, though I’m quickly coming to recognize how naive it was to think “I’m writing a novel in a month!” Yes, the novel will be done in the sense that it has a beginning, middle, and end–but damn, there will be so much more to do when it’s done. At the end of the Pep Talk book for this project, it even says, “Now that’s your done… are you ready to spend another year with this story and it’s characters?”
When I read that today (I skipped ahead), I was surprised. I mean, I knew I was going to go back and add and expand and rewrite, but when I really map out everything I want to do that to… yeah, a year seems about right. And that’s a long time. I’m not sure I have the patience to give this novel what it needs to really become what I want it to be. But I suppose I can try, and take it one day at a time like I did this month.
Happy Thanksgiving!
