Sunday, November 29, 2015

NaNoWriMo 2015: I Didn't Think I Would Make It...

Hey, uh... wow, I just decided not to post a damn thing at all? Not even on my 29th birthday, which was three days ago. Wow, me. Way to go.

Well, I ran into a HUGE road bump about Week 2 of writing my novel. I was feeling really off, like I was coming down with something. I know that I ended my tenure with the banking call center, but there was something else. Yep, it was mold allergies. I was knocked flat off my feet for a while. I lost my drive for a long while.

Around the first week of my new job, between any moment I could, I started to write more scenes. My hand cramped so bad after those intense sessions. I wrote about an average of a thousand words per notebook session.

After that, I got a fire lit under me when my mother told me that she knew that I could come from behind and finish in time. Driven by that, plus that feeling of "I can't fail this, I got so far", I decided to go full steam ahead.

So yeah, I finally pulled a comeback that would make LL Cool J want to write a song about it. But none of my mom telling me to knock a man out.

So here's to finishing what I started and here's to a revision/continuation* for that project!



*the novel is not finished, but I chose to stop at 50K+ so I can put it aside and finish some other projects, while I have this fire going.

Monday, November 2, 2015

NaNoWriMo 2015: Off to a Rousing Start

Well, NaNoWriMo kicked off yesterday and I was gone from the starting line like a bullet from a gun. I managed to write over 3K of words to begin my new tale just on my first day. Today I managed just as much and I actually want to write more! So I may get some more words in before the day is fully done. I know once I get into my final week at Chase that it's gonna be a little bit challenging (I may just go for the default amount of 1,667 words a session on my working days). 

Otherwise, things are going very well. And if I play my cards right, later this week I should finally have an Xbox One. Dunno if working on NaNoWriMo at the same time that Rise of the Tomb Raider and Fallout 4 come out, but that's a risk I have to take. 

Until then, peace out, beautiful people.