Week 2 Encouragement
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nanowrimo_ljSo how are you doing on your word count? If you have written 16,670 words or more, you're doing well - right on target for winning NaNo 2004.
If you are below that, it has come to my attention that a gentle push or delicate persuasion may be needed to help out. Unfortunately, these things, 'gentle', 'delicate', and 'tactful' generally escape me.
My question is, if you have fewer than 16,670 words, why the hell are you reading this post? Really, people! If you have fewer words than that, you should be staring at your notebook, typewriter, or word processing program and really forcing it out.
Oh, I know, I know... "But I'm stuck!" or "I've hit a wall" or "I was too busy eating so I wouldn't starve to death like those poor kids in Africa." Well let me tell you something, dear reader. If you are reading this, you are about as likely to starve as a mosquito is likely to visit the moon of its own volition.
"But the week two wall is right in my face!" people say. "I simply can not overcome the fact that my MC has fallen deeply in love with her talking pet tarantula! She was supposed to be zombie slaying mistress of the Light!"
Folks, unfortunately, as the saying goes, shit happens. Stop your bitching and write! So what if the psychopathic ex-neighbor has suddenly become the love interest of your MC's daughter - this brings about whole new realms of conflict for your characters to explore!
I have even less sympathy (if such a negative sympathy level is possible) for those of you who go out on to the internet and write up long, rambling e-mails and forum posts about the fact that you have hit a massive spell of writer's block and you are stuck at eight thousand one hundred thirty four and a half words. Do you know what you could have done with the five hundred word mini-essay you just wrote on writer's block? You could have written five-hundred words about why your character never writes anything!
Yes, of course it may not make sense - but as they say in the movie industry, "we'll fix it in editing."
In conclusion, you committed, on your honor, to do your best to complete NaNo this month. In my mind, that means, if you fail perhaps you should commit ritual suicide to preserve the honor of the rest of your family.
So write, people! For the love of all that is NaNo.... WRITE!
If you are below that, it has come to my attention that a gentle push or delicate persuasion may be needed to help out. Unfortunately, these things, 'gentle', 'delicate', and 'tactful' generally escape me.
My question is, if you have fewer than 16,670 words, why the hell are you reading this post? Really, people! If you have fewer words than that, you should be staring at your notebook, typewriter, or word processing program and really forcing it out.
Oh, I know, I know... "But I'm stuck!" or "I've hit a wall" or "I was too busy eating so I wouldn't starve to death like those poor kids in Africa." Well let me tell you something, dear reader. If you are reading this, you are about as likely to starve as a mosquito is likely to visit the moon of its own volition.
"But the week two wall is right in my face!" people say. "I simply can not overcome the fact that my MC has fallen deeply in love with her talking pet tarantula! She was supposed to be zombie slaying mistress of the Light!"
Folks, unfortunately, as the saying goes, shit happens. Stop your bitching and write! So what if the psychopathic ex-neighbor has suddenly become the love interest of your MC's daughter - this brings about whole new realms of conflict for your characters to explore!
I have even less sympathy (if such a negative sympathy level is possible) for those of you who go out on to the internet and write up long, rambling e-mails and forum posts about the fact that you have hit a massive spell of writer's block and you are stuck at eight thousand one hundred thirty four and a half words. Do you know what you could have done with the five hundred word mini-essay you just wrote on writer's block? You could have written five-hundred words about why your character never writes anything!
Yes, of course it may not make sense - but as they say in the movie industry, "we'll fix it in editing."
In conclusion, you committed, on your honor, to do your best to complete NaNo this month. In my mind, that means, if you fail perhaps you should commit ritual suicide to preserve the honor of the rest of your family.
So write, people! For the love of all that is NaNo.... WRITE!
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