Day 21 Start
Twice in my life I’ve written 50,000 words in one month, as
part of National Novel Writing Month. How did I do that? I simply started writing.
Pretty
well every single day of those two consecutive Novembers, I put my butt in my
chair, put on some inspiring music, and began typing. I knew that I
had to write at least 1600 words every day in order to meet my goal. I put off
doing other evening activities during that time because I seriously had to write!
Every day
was a new day to start writing. It didn’t matter that my writing wasn’t the
best. I just wanted to accomplish my
goal. And it worked. By the end of the month, I had a sense of satisfaction
knowing that my book was completed. And I was amazed at the ideas that flowed once I got into the writing groove. At times I didn't know in which direction my story would go or what would happen to a character. The writing wasn’t necessarily great, I know that. BUT I was amazed
that it was coherent and made sense, and I was really enjoying myself. The first book was called Goodbye to Yesterday and the second was titled
One Thousand Words (as in ‘a picture
is worth a thousand words’, but you’d have to read the story… ). Riveting
titles, eh? ;)
Nothing really gets done if we don’t decide to just start,
putting our feelings aside. I guess that’s called discipline.
Does this reminiscing inspire me to start a new NaNoWriMo Challenge come November? I'm starting to think about it.
