Tuesday, November 25, 2014

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.