Inklings & Musings

NaNoWriMo & Editing

Today was the first day of my first NaNoWriMo.  2458 words were cranked out this morning and early afternoon.  I can't say that I'm completely satisfied, but it is progress.  My biggest issue is that I am writing so fast that I am barely thinking about what I am writing, for once.  I guess that's good, for this type of workshop experience, but it has left me feeling like an uncreative robot instead of a dreamer.  Since I've already finished writing four books (all now in various states of revision), I don't need the "finishing" aspect of NaNoWriMo, but it is good for me to get to original writing again after a year and a half of revising and editing.  I hope some good will come of it.

To balance out the bleh feeling of writing too fast for four hours today, I decided to do some more editing on my fantasy novel.  Both the Wise Reader and the sweetheart gave the new revisions a thumbs up, both citing feelings of depth being added to what had been a more boring stretch of the book.  I guess I am going in the right direction.  Chapter 7 doesn't need much more than a light edit, which I worked on today.  Hopefully, I can fix the long and dry Chapter 8 to my satisfaction before turning it into the Wise Reader on Friday.  I love the otherworldly quality of Chapter 7.  I miss the feeling from childhood of constantly being amazed and delighted at new things, and I enjoy following Izabella around her new home as she discovers things that I can only dream of. 

A dream, though, can be a nightmare.  It will be interesting to see how she handles what follows.


What do you dream of, if given a chance?