Halfway through the month, another NaNoWriMo effort underway. I'm way behind but making progress, if you call what I'm doing progress. I should be over 26,000 words by now. I just broke the 13K mark. My goal is to make it up this week. If I can. I my fingers hold out that long. I may switch over to using Dragon for the next few days and see how that goes. How it will impact my word count and the pain in my hand. We'll see. I like to type. Close my eyes and type.My last three NaNo efforts still languish in limbo. I have yet to dust them off and look at them for any potential they may have. And I've actually been considering that--seriously. Editing may not be my strong point, but why not? What have I got to lose? Dignity, maybe. Looking back at those past efforts could cost me a lot of that--especially if they are as bad as I recall them being. But, even if I could salvage a chapter here or there? It could be worth the effort just to see if my writing has grown, if my skills have picked up any along the way. Then again, it might be an exercise in futility. Won't know until I try.
But, for today, I've gotten almost 3K new words to add the the current mess and if I keep going, I may make it to the finish line after all. My heart has not been in it this year. Not sure why, just has not been there. Still working with the same two characters I started with. No one new has shown up, no real plot has materialised, no over-arching theme. However, that is the point of the whole challenge. Type. Type fast. Type for fun. Just let go and move along. Okay. But I'm brain fried right now. I'll get there in bits and spurts and let this one collect a bit of dust as well. But this year, I'd really like to take a look at what's gone before and see what I can make of them. If nothing else, I'll have learned something, eh? For right now, I'd like to curl up in front of a blazing fire with a cup of hot cocoa and just stare into the flames. Maybe they can tell me something...
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