My head is just not in this.
The "horror story" complete with unintentional Lovecraftian influences, I just can't get it off the ground. For starters, the initial prologue is set in 1675. I started writing it and I just can't seem to get the dialogue to sound anything remotely like I imagine people in 1675 New England would speak. And I know I shouldn't give a shit at this point, I mean NaNo is all about garbage, but there's something so incredibly fake about it that it's getting under my skin.
I jumped to the opening and, again, it's just not coming out in any way that doesn't feel like I'm just forcing myself to throw it up like the end of bad drinking binge.
So I just stopped and I opened up my notebook of idea fragments and started running through them for something that I might actually feel like writing. It's not a big loss at this point, I'm still under 1k of words written, even if I do stick with what I've already started. Switching at this point might not mean anything.
Now, strangely, as I'm writing this, I'm starting to have second thoughts about the whole thing. Should I in fact, dump what I've already started? I might get a bigger boost from something that I want to write at the moment. But I could just as easily get bogged down again--something that might happen no matter what I try to stick with. Aw hell. And none of this takes any of the other bullshit that is my wacky-sitcom life into account. All that garbage hasn't help me concentrate on anything coherent.
I'm going to sleep on it, it's too late to really do anything about it tonight.
posted by Evil Wayne @ 11:48 PM
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If you decide to pick another storyline, keep what you've already written. In the world of NaNo, the words were written, so they can count toward your final total.
There is one guy who is writing a series of "short stories". When he gets tired of one story, he writes "Then a miracle occurred..." and then starts the new story.
I'm starting to flounder on mine, but it's more because of lack of time than anything else. It's also getting into week 2, which is notorious for dragging people down.
I also still can't update my word count on the NaNo site. It works for everyone else on the planet, but not for me. -sigh-
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