NaNoWriMo 2006 Journal

Working Title: TBA
Summary: TBA
What's Happening Right Now: Jenny finds out that even after 15 years, nothing has changed.
Word Count: 14,309 (11/14/06)

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11/21/06

So one of my excuses is that I just can't get comfortable with my laptop. If I'm sitting up, my belly is in the way and my back hurts and my legs get restless. I'm only comfortable laying down, and it's really hard to type that way. I think I could force out words if I wasn't hating every second of sitting up. Also... I don't care about this novel. I never figured out the whole plot line, and the story doesn't intrigue me enough to keep writing to find out what happens. The characters never came to life, so I don't care if their story is left untold.

I suck.

11/14/06

As I feared would happen, I dropped the ball. I have 500 excuses, none of them good. The bottom line is that I am nearly 10,000 words behind where I should be by now.

I could have a huge comeback over Thanksgiving weekend. Or not. I think the key is that I have to figure out where my story is going, and then take it there. I need to not worry about word count and worry about getting the story told. But this goes against NaNo principles. Ah, the dilemma.

See pictures from the 2006 Writing Weekend here.

11/07/06

The writing weekend has come and gone. As usual, it was a great time, full of quiet companionship, raucous laughter, good eating and drinking and, of course, hot tubbing. The cabin we stayed in this year was actually more a farmhouse. It was a very short walk to the Shenandoah River. The fall colors were brilliant. And... I came away from the weekend with over 12,000 words. I had hoped for more, but I will take what I can get.

Since returning from the weekend I've only managed about 600 words, though. This is not good. I'm looking to blow that big lead I had with just one more day of not writing. I'm just not feeling invested in my story. I still don't know what's going to happen.

Pictures from the weekend coming soon.

10/28/06

My confidence this year is way down. Nano starts in five days, and I have nothing -- no plot ideas, character ideas, not even that urge to write something, anything. I haven't written for pleasure since... well, I think it was last November.

The Fourth Annual Writing Weekend kicks off on Thursday night. We added an evening this year, which will be really nice and give us two full days of writing as opposed to just one. We're going to a place down by the Shenandoah River in Virginia and I'm hoping the camaraderie, seclusion and atmosphere will get my story going.