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The Nano Report
Friday, November 14th, 2008 09:50 amI am way behind on my NaNoWriMo novel. Of course, I suppose it is understandable that I haven't been able to work on it since last week, but now I am ready to get back to it... and... well...
*grumbles*
It's not that I don't want to write it. I could have chosen to write a fan-fic novel, but I thought, darn it, if I'm going to put this much effort into it, I might as well write something that I can shop around for publishing, right?
Problem is, I find myself wanting to work on the novel I started for last year's Nano. How inconvenient is that?
And this one is going in directions I didn't plan. Seriously, I actually wrote an outline for this one and... at this point, I'm not even close. It's heading in directions I never planned, and the sad thing is, it's based on a drabble I wrote some time ago, and... it's already departed from the drabble. I think I'd better let the drabble go. It's not even close to the same story, not at all.
*sigh*
It's always frustrating when I'm writing something that takes on a life of its own, and I sit there yelling at it, "Hey, wait a minute, I didn't want you to do that!! You're supposed to do this instead!!"
Not to mention, I still need to finish my Harry Holidays fic and send it off for beta (and Brit-picking), as well as typing up the minutes from the last soccer board meeting and sending off emails to all the members to let them know we have a meeting this weekend.
Oh, please, don't let me forget to pick up the keys for the meeting room today!!
Can y'all just picture me with post-it note reminders stuck all over my forehead? Which, really, is a silly place to put them since I can't read them on my forehead!
Refresh my memory... why am I a writer?
*grumbles*
It's not that I don't want to write it. I could have chosen to write a fan-fic novel, but I thought, darn it, if I'm going to put this much effort into it, I might as well write something that I can shop around for publishing, right?
Problem is, I find myself wanting to work on the novel I started for last year's Nano. How inconvenient is that?
And this one is going in directions I didn't plan. Seriously, I actually wrote an outline for this one and... at this point, I'm not even close. It's heading in directions I never planned, and the sad thing is, it's based on a drabble I wrote some time ago, and... it's already departed from the drabble. I think I'd better let the drabble go. It's not even close to the same story, not at all.
*sigh*
It's always frustrating when I'm writing something that takes on a life of its own, and I sit there yelling at it, "Hey, wait a minute, I didn't want you to do that!! You're supposed to do this instead!!"
Not to mention, I still need to finish my Harry Holidays fic and send it off for beta (and Brit-picking), as well as typing up the minutes from the last soccer board meeting and sending off emails to all the members to let them know we have a meeting this weekend.
Oh, please, don't let me forget to pick up the keys for the meeting room today!!
Can y'all just picture me with post-it note reminders stuck all over my forehead? Which, really, is a silly place to put them since I can't read them on my forehead!
Refresh my memory... why am I a writer?
