Just WRITE

Wordcount: 5,003

I have just discovered Write or Die. I wrote 1,000 in 30 minutes last night. They were crap words but I got that stupid scene written. I think I will be visitng Write or Die a lot this NaNoWriMo. I am also throwing out my half finished outline just because I can. I really just want to get to know this character. He's disturbed in all the best ways so I'm just going to see where he takes me.

[Random Interjection: My roommate just texted me. It reads, "Pip!!! I am going to choke you tonight!!" See the abuse I take? Haha I probably deserve it*]

My goal for tonight is 8,000. If I use Write or Die again I could reach that point in an hour and a half but that's if I want another 3,000 crap words. I am giving myself 2 hours to devote to Nano tonight because I have a major test tomorrow. NaNoWriMo during college is a lot harder than I thought it would be.

Here's my realization: Whatever I write this month is going to be crap.

But I need to stick it out for the whole month. I haven't been writing since I came to college, which is distressing. NaNoWriMo is just going to throw me right back into writing. And hopefully I'll end up with a crap first draft that might hold a tiny fragment of a good novel hidden in its depths. I already know that I love this character. I am going to take these 50,000 words to see where he takes me. I have a storyline and a plot idea but I am going to throw away the scene-by-scene outline I started out with. Not that it was necessarily a bad outline. I'd just rather do some explorative writing without being boxed in by an outline.

I am a very slow writer by nature. I have the worst inner-editor. She just won't shut up. I'm lucky if I write 1,000 in a day. NaNoWriMo is all about silencing my strict inner-editor and getting the ideas out of my head. So that's what I'm going to do.

Right now. WRITE NOW!**

*Roomie and I are friends. I am fairly certain she was joking just now. I don't think she will actually strangle me in the night.

**Sorry. That was uncalled for.