Day 1

My novel I slammed out for NaNo is a piece of crap.  I don't even feel it is anything close to a novel.

I did lay out a story map....

It is far from complete.  I still have to work out the rising action and what will constitute the story's Climax.  So I need to lay some of this out.

I will have to do some "Writing Practice" to get the old brain working.

I was reading Natalie Goldberg's book and she says to do "writing practice" instead of writing about myself "journaling."

Peter Elbow says it should be "freewriting."  I will see what it will entail in the morning.

NaNoWriMo

I reached 50,000 when I participated in the Novel in a Month program.  I felt proud even got an award

People were watching.  I had writing buddies who would comment on how we were doing.

Now it's over, and I'm sitting here staring at the computer, surfing the internet and getting depressed.  I don't want to lose my momentum.

So what am I going to do?  I'm going to do my own little "Writing Program" which calls for production.

I need to list
What I need to do:
What I accomplished:
What kinds of problems I might have encountered:
What is my plan tomorrow:

OK lets give it a try.

I'm a lousy blogger

I haven't posted anything on this blog for over a year.  I started it because I thought I could look at the points I thought were important and put them down on this blog.  But the problem was that I never really felt qualified to say anything.  I didn't feel I should post anything until I had full knowledge on the subject.  Boy, that stopped me dead in my tracks.

No one follows this blog.  No one sees it.  I could just write on what I am struggling with and think it out here, and it won't bother anyone.

Right now I am trying to polish up something I already wrote.  I wrote it in NaNoWriMo and I have gone through it again.  Well I have scheduled to have my work read and now I'm scared.  I don't know if it can ever be good enough.

So where do I start?  I really need to toughen up and just do it.  Well I did.  I got this written and now I'm scared of it.  Anyone who is not a writer would think that's nuts.  But writers.  They know what I'm saying.

Back to the writing books, my only advisers.  Let's go to "A story is a Promise" by Bill Johnson.