Good morning, everyone!!!
Oh my the pressure is on for certain. 4k to go and 4 days to do it in. Two of these said days I am also working my normal 8 hour days at the day job. All month, I've been putting in at least 8 hours a day at the day job five days a week (or more) and then spending another 7 to 8 hours a day at the keyboard. You know what? I'm loving every minute of it. I'm super hopeful I hold onto this momentum after NaNoWriMo is over.
Every day before work I spend at least an hour working on my WIP, then I come home and spend seven or eight hours more working on it. I've had a few days here and there where it has been hard to transition from my WIP to reality. Having to think about what I'm doing and who I am with great effort, LOL.
It's all good though, I don't mind having writer brain, because that is where I feel most comfortable in this life. Moving forward with a WIP is exciting. Leaving off before a long work day at the day job, with characters stuck in some unusual situation, makes getting back to it easier. Just like the other day when my heroine was somewhere out there in a snowstorm and my hero was frantically trying to find her to no avail. This caused irritation in my hero, which in turn caused a huge fight with one of his brothers.
I think this is one reason I enjoy writing series books. You get to know the characters, even the side characters, so well, that their personalities get to clash from time to time. One side character in particular is clashing with my hero more times than not in this WIP and it makes for that time bomb pressure between the two. That my readers, is the fun of writing this particular WIP :) Okay, that and the growth that comes from the life my heroine has lead before her story begins.
It's exciting to see her grow from victim to survivor in the pages of one book. In reality, it takes much longer, but I don't have that sort of time in a novel :) So, her progress is quicker than reality, but just as dynamic as reality :)
I love character growth in a story. That's why I started The Acceptance Series. Someone in my novel needs to grow, whether it be the heroine or the hero, or both, which is normally what needs to happen.
It's not so different from life, really. We are only happy if we are growing inwardly in our life. If we are standing still, no forward motion in our personal inner growth, we tend to become agitated and stagnant. The same goes for characters we read about, they need to be pushing the mark in some way to grow internally, to become who they are to be. So do we in the real world.
We need to weed our patch regularly, so to speak. To weed out what is not working any longer, even though it may have worked tried and true for many years. Things change and we need to be flexible enough to change with it.
For so long I felt stagnant. As if my imagination had left me. As if I were sitting still in the midst of so much movement. Like standing in the middle of a tornado, the winds blowing all around me, but not a single hair on my head was moving. The desire to flow was there, but the ambition was somewhere lost in the winds.
I feel this all returning to me. The hopes, the dreams, the inner encouragement that started this path, is all reforming around my heart and soul. This time bringing with it a fresh new look and drive that is impossible to ignore. Perfect timing I say, with the winter months coming upon us and the time I will have alone with only my imagination.
What else I feel returning is the emotional realm that comes with writing. Emotions I recently wanted to stamp out, I realize now I need to be the writer I am. How can one connect with deep emotions in characters if they hide from it in their reality?
Well I guess I should get some writing in before I head out to the day job.
Everyone have a lovely day!!!
Blessings to all!!!
Oh my the pressure is on for certain. 4k to go and 4 days to do it in. Two of these said days I am also working my normal 8 hour days at the day job. All month, I've been putting in at least 8 hours a day at the day job five days a week (or more) and then spending another 7 to 8 hours a day at the keyboard. You know what? I'm loving every minute of it. I'm super hopeful I hold onto this momentum after NaNoWriMo is over.
Every day before work I spend at least an hour working on my WIP, then I come home and spend seven or eight hours more working on it. I've had a few days here and there where it has been hard to transition from my WIP to reality. Having to think about what I'm doing and who I am with great effort, LOL.
It's all good though, I don't mind having writer brain, because that is where I feel most comfortable in this life. Moving forward with a WIP is exciting. Leaving off before a long work day at the day job, with characters stuck in some unusual situation, makes getting back to it easier. Just like the other day when my heroine was somewhere out there in a snowstorm and my hero was frantically trying to find her to no avail. This caused irritation in my hero, which in turn caused a huge fight with one of his brothers.
I think this is one reason I enjoy writing series books. You get to know the characters, even the side characters, so well, that their personalities get to clash from time to time. One side character in particular is clashing with my hero more times than not in this WIP and it makes for that time bomb pressure between the two. That my readers, is the fun of writing this particular WIP :) Okay, that and the growth that comes from the life my heroine has lead before her story begins.
It's exciting to see her grow from victim to survivor in the pages of one book. In reality, it takes much longer, but I don't have that sort of time in a novel :) So, her progress is quicker than reality, but just as dynamic as reality :)
I love character growth in a story. That's why I started The Acceptance Series. Someone in my novel needs to grow, whether it be the heroine or the hero, or both, which is normally what needs to happen.
It's not so different from life, really. We are only happy if we are growing inwardly in our life. If we are standing still, no forward motion in our personal inner growth, we tend to become agitated and stagnant. The same goes for characters we read about, they need to be pushing the mark in some way to grow internally, to become who they are to be. So do we in the real world.
We need to weed our patch regularly, so to speak. To weed out what is not working any longer, even though it may have worked tried and true for many years. Things change and we need to be flexible enough to change with it.
For so long I felt stagnant. As if my imagination had left me. As if I were sitting still in the midst of so much movement. Like standing in the middle of a tornado, the winds blowing all around me, but not a single hair on my head was moving. The desire to flow was there, but the ambition was somewhere lost in the winds.
I feel this all returning to me. The hopes, the dreams, the inner encouragement that started this path, is all reforming around my heart and soul. This time bringing with it a fresh new look and drive that is impossible to ignore. Perfect timing I say, with the winter months coming upon us and the time I will have alone with only my imagination.
What else I feel returning is the emotional realm that comes with writing. Emotions I recently wanted to stamp out, I realize now I need to be the writer I am. How can one connect with deep emotions in characters if they hide from it in their reality?
Well I guess I should get some writing in before I head out to the day job.
Everyone have a lovely day!!!
Blessings to all!!!