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[cathubodva.livejournal.com]

Is anyone else struggling with a diagnosed generalized anxiety disorder and trying to do NaNo? How about completely paralyzed by plot holes? I was stuck on a particular part of my novel last night so when I went to bed I made the mistake of talking about it with MY STUPID HUSBAND, hoping he would help talk me through it. Instead (completely unintentionally, I know... he doesn't quite get that NaNo is supposed to be quantity over quality) he pointed out all of my OTHER plot holes.

Now that anxiety disorder is kicking in, the same one that makes all other decisions impossible, and I'm really struggling to write a single word.

What do you do to get past it?

Comments

[dreamwriteremmy]

i do... I learned this in NaNo for in 2006. I hit a plot hole, I go find a "cake scene." A scene that's fun, that might be related to my Magna Carta I list aka "favorite types of stories/scenes list", and that maybe has NO relation whatsover to where i was when I hit the plothole. I write outside of chronological order. Nothing in NaNoWriMo says I have to write the beginning, the middle, and the end chronologically. I might be able to fill in the plot hole later if I know what happens later... and well, if i have a gaping plot hole after I hit 50k? I can think about how to fill it then. :)

[skindyedindigo.livejournal.com]

This what I do! I might 4 pages from the middle and then a chapter from the beginning, etc. If I didn't hop around I would go CRAZY! Besides, it gives me the chance to write out ideas as they come (i.e. if my MC does something amazing toward the end of the novel, I don't have to file it away to write later, so much easier!).