NaNoWriMo Day 4
Welcome to my little experiment, where I lift the curtain on my writing process during NaNoWriMo 2023 in an effort to feel less alone. If you’re also doing NaNoWriMo, feel free to add me as a buddy!
daily summary 📅
Today it feels just like I’m spinning my wheels in mud and going nowhere. I’m writing a lot of words, but I’m not sure if they’re doing anything. Also, in the middle of writing my scene, I realized I started it in the wrong place and set it in the wrong location, so that was fun. 7000 words into this draft and I’ve already veered off my incredibly flexible outline twice already. So much for trying to prep. 💀
daily process ⏱️
8:25AM. I think I’m coming down with something. I’m so bad at being sick; I have man-colds where I flop about and whine and complain about how terrible I feel and am otherwise completely useless.
11:14AM. Once again distracted by stuff for GUARDIANS 2. Took the bois on their long walk and I feel either the cold or my allergies acting up ugh. I guess today is another afternoon sprint session. Despite being a morning person, it always seems to take me a few hours to get going. Maybe I’m an afternoon writer after all?
11:42AM. 510 words. I hate when I realize in the middle of a scene that I’m writing it wrong. Instead of a family dinner, it makes far more sense for Redacted to be sitting beside Redacted to give person stakes to the redacted storyline.
12:04PM. Got sidetracked by copyedits for GUARDIANS 2, but pushed ahead a little to finish this interval with a round 6000 words total.
12:22PM. Made lunch (fried cabbage again, mmmm) and now to take a break with the latest episode of Suchwita with Jungkook.
1:40PM. Lunch consumed, Suchwita watched, groceries bought. Now we are back for the afternoon sprint sessions.
2:12PM. 1078 words. It feels a bit like I’m spinning my wheels in the mud instead of getting where I need to go. Still. Words are there.
3:08PM. Got sidetracked again with GUARDIANS 2 stuff and also trying to update my website with some future events, but Squarespace is apparently down for the moment? I suppose now is as good a time as any to see if I can’t push through and hit word count for the day.
3:47PM. And scene! I think I need a bit of a brain reset. Maybe I’ll go play Dragon Age: Inquisition for the umpteenth time. Or do I want to start a replay of the Mass Effect trilogy?
That’s Day 4 of NaNoWriMo done! How about y’all? Any successes? Failures?