nanowrimo 2008: day 7 – 9
so….not so much. my baby girl turned one on saturday, which meant most of friday was spent prepping and all of saturday was spent partying and recovering (and going to bed by 10pm). I could have made up for it on sunday, but since we were unable to start the final prep for our trip to NY until after the party, most of today was spent plotting and gathering and freaking out about that.
i’m getting on a plane in 54 hours.
before i do i have to take my daughter to her 1 year check up (with shots), do 3-4 loads of laundry, re-write her “primer” (the instruction booklet that goes with her for long-term babysitting assignments), make sure i’ve got enough food made to send with her. pack her up. pack me up. go out at least one more time for things i’ve forgotten to pick up and/or decided at the last minute i need.
oh, and write about 4000 if i want to break “even” by the time i get on the plane. i don’t want to break even. i want to have a day or two (or 3-4k words) padding before i get on the plane so that by the time i touch down, i don’t have to worry about the novel until i want to. the “good” news is that flying turns me into an insomniac, so i might be able to get it down under the wire tuesday night. of course, it’s hard to focus during that, and it’ll likely mean i’ll sleep on the plane, which ruins the plane-writing plan.
second problem: writing inertia. it isn’t exactly writer’s block, because i have the scenes all queued up in my head. for some reason, though, i can’t seem to get them out. i procrastinated until entirely too late tonight and by the time i got around to writing again (it’s now 2am) it’s all slap-happy crap. i managed to squeeze out a few chunks, but it’s all dialogue. it’s like they turned out the lights while they were talking so i can’t see what’s going on.
i’m hoping that tomorrow, when i have other things that i’ll be trying to procrastinate against, i’ll fill my time with writing. at the very least, i’ll pick over a motivational email or two. maybe that’ll help?
no excerpt tonight, either. i’m too sleepy to judge. we’re getting to the juicy part soon, though.
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