Word Count: 24,212 words (as of last night)
# of times I've felt like an elephant stepped on me in the last 3 days: approx. 50
# of times I wished I didn't have to miss co-op: 15 :(
But now here's today's blogger! She's one of my real life best friends. :)
Summary:
Saskia Zolten-Penn, a 19-year-old girl
living in Budapest with her younger brother Juper, was orphaned years ago on a
dark night that will forever haunt her memories. She will never forget what she did that night
and how it got her here. Now a war is
raging over Budapest and the government wants her to help them. She has set her identity as a master
assassin, and as she fights for her country she realizes the only way she will
live is by letting the horrifying visions from her past die.
Hey,
ya’ll, how’s it going? I’m hickchick
(you can think of me as Rose, though).
This is my NaNoWriMo novel summary for this month, and so far I’m doing
pretty darn good, excuse me, well. I’m
about 30% of the way through my novel.
I’d like to be moving along at a better pace, but life is busy and then
there’s always the inevitable: the beast that causes all writers to shake in
their shoes from fear, the beast that makes the boldest author want to slam his
or her head against the wall until he or she passes out. This beast attacks every writer at some
point, and his name is Writer’s Block.
And if hearing his name doesn’t strike fear into your heart, I don’t
know what will.
Unfortunately
for me, that is something that I’m dealing with right now. That’s the reason the NaNo website is telling
me that at the rate I’m going I won’t be finishing my novel until December
17. Yeah, not good. But I’ve been attacked by W.B. before and he
has yet to completely deprive me of my creativity. I’ve won the battle before, I know I will
again, and long before December 17.
Right
now Saskia is the leader of a sniper unit on the Hungary border. They just captured six enemy soldiers and the
president has instructed Saskia to interrogate them. So Saskia is walking toward the bound
prisoners, but doesn’t know what she’ll say.
Kind of like me right now, haha.
She has absolutely no clue how to get information out of them. Buying time, I had one of her comrades make a
snarky remark so she could jack him in the face. That was fun to type up, but buying time
doesn’t make the cut.
Even
though I am under attack by W.B. right now, I still have tips for all of you
writers out there who are also hopelessly stuck and are thinking, “I’m just
going to give up on writing forever!”
That’s part of my first tip: Never give up and never say ‘forever’ in
that context. Forever is too long to not
write and inspiration will hit you upside the head before you know it. Second tip: Go somewhere inspirational. I get inspired by lakes and mountains.
Unfortunately, I don’t live anywhere near lakes or mountains, which is why W.B.
is so scary for me. But seriously, go
somewhere you know you’ll be inspired. Third
tip: Talk to someone (who knows what you’re writing about) and they may be able
to come up with an idea that you can manipulate. Just be sure to give them a hug, thank them
three million times, and dedicate the book to them. Last, but definitely not least, eat some
birthday cake flavored ice cream. It
always helps. Enough said. Writer’s Block is a scary beast for writers
to face, but to quote an author I really like, ‘the first step to taming a
beast is naming him.’
Well,
instead of writing to all of ya’ll about W.B. I should probably go face him and
punch him into the next century. I won’t
be living in the next century where he will land, so I apologize in advance to
all the writers who will be living in 100 years. So, happy writing to you all and I hope all
of you who are participating in National Novel Writing Month are scheduled to
finish by the 30th!
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