NaNoWriMo Plus 5

5 November 2006

I think I’m doing okay. I’ve got 15,000 words completed over forty pages. Doing this around two kids and job seeking is really getting to be a pain in the kiester. Especially when one considers the fact that my wife is doing the Festival of Trees with her friend and also doing my sister’s wedding dress. I try and help her as much as I can, but I’m still trying to crank out ten pages per day. I just promise her help after I hit my first five pages. So, I wake up earlier than anyone else in the house and try and get my first five pages done before anyone else wakes up. It just gets hard getting up early when at least one of the kids has me out of bed in the middle of the night. Ah, but it’s a labor of love. I love my wife, I love my kids, and I love writing; in that order. I write because I have to, but I’m going to use Bradbury’s advice of quantity eventually yields quality. It’s just one of those situations of what do writers do? They write. The more I write the better I’ll get. I am going to get this 50,000 word goal. Check out my stuff at NaNoWriMo.org. I think I am definitely enjoying this, though. It’s worth my time because the story is really starting to take on a life of its own. Already it seems to have deviated from the initial plot I laid out for it. But I want success, not necessarily adhesion to my plot. The story is called Finder of Lost Things