oh, the freedom!
NaNo is finally here and I’m awash in a sea of words! I’m following all the twitter activity and checking up on how my buddies are doing and just generally getting off to a really good start. Best tip I ever received: start at midnight and write for as long as you can before you fall asleep – then when you wake up, you’ve already got a head start and the day is still only the first! I can almost feel all the other writers out there in the world, it’s like we’re all connected.
Which we are! I love the internet… *happy sigh*
Even though theoretically I could sleep in this morning, I was too fired up to sleep and woke with new ideas shimmering in my brain. And the rest of the day, even as I was busy with other things, those ideas seemed to be busy rubbing up against each other and multiplying and where yesterday I only had eight characters and the merest sketch of a shadowy outline, I now feel like I have a rainbow laid out in front of my feet.
Do I sound drunk? I think I’m drunk on possibilities. So far, one of the cast has announced to me that she’s pregnant, three have brought up successful claims to change their names (Yes, despite what I said earlier! And I really have no idea how it happened), the geeky, borderline-boring guy is turning out to be a really good jazz pianist and the goofy guy didn’t even begin being goofy and instead went straight for the bottle of irony. Which means, that I’m either loosing my tentative grip on the story (= bad), or the cast has come alive and is becoming very real indeed (=good, I think).
Oh, the feeling of freedom at the beginning, with all roads open and all avenues to be explored…!
Posted on November 1, 2012, in day-to-day and tagged NaNo, NaNoWriMo, writing. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
cresting the words 
*Oh, the feeling of freedom at the beginning, with all roads open and all avenues to be explored…!*
Just be carefull that – in the end – you choose one of them and stick to it! otherwise you won’t get to the aim of the project!
Don’t be such a pessimist! Of course I will… 🙂
I saw that you’ve been making good progress. Well done! =D It’s great when characters surprise us like that. My character has now presented herself as sloppy, and I find her a lot more endearing, haha.
🙂 Nice one. How did you first day go?
It was good! I wrote a little over 2,100 words, which was more than what I had planned to write. 😀