NaNoWriMo has... stalled a bit for me. That’s really the
only way I can describe it. I’m making sure I write daily, don’t get me wrong
but it feels like the words are forced and I hate the story. No, actually it
doesn’t feel like I hate the story. I actually hate the story. I don’t know why
as I was really jazzed about it last week, I got loads of writing done, hitting
13,000 by the end of the first weekend. I think that may be the problem though,
I’ve burnt out before I’ve barely begun. I’m trying to balance working 5/6
hours a day with an hour’s travelling time each day, the need for at least 8
hours sleep and writing an word count goal of 3000+ words a day. It’s too much.
I can’t do it right now, not when I hate the story and would rather be doing
other things.
I knew the story wasn’t quite right, particularly once I
started adding all the dares. Some of them, are cool and have helped develop
the plot some more, some are just fun inserts to right. If I’m brutally honest
though I think they’re making the story suck. Suck so much that I think I’ll
just leave them out from here onwards. Apart from the ones that really appeal
to me. Despite feeling all this though I’ve kept going and this feeling of
hatred towards that story is slowly creeping over me. I don’t want to hate the
story, it actually seems like quite a good one but all these dares that I’ve
added have just made it seem silly. The only answer is to take out the dares.
It probably doesn’t help that I’m getting all these ideas
for The Darkling Watch, how I’m going to edit it and then a bunch of ideas for
the o.S.a.M rework and other novels set in that world. I jot them down with the
intent of coming back to them later but really all I want to do is write them
now. I’m actually thinking about being a bit of a rebel, using The Death of
Yggdrasill as practice and warm up each day before I start editing or rewriting
The Darkling Watch. But I’m not ready to do that. I know The Darkling Watch isn’t
finished in the first round of read-throughs. It’s not properly planned out. So
there isn’t much I can really do except for hit each day’s word-goal and keep
writing but ignore the silly parts of the story.
Maybe it is hormones, maybe it’s burn out or maybe it’s a
completely other reason that I don’t know about. All I do know is that I refuse
to let myself burn out or hate my novel, hate any of my novels. SO I’m just
going to write the bare minimum I want to write until this weird mood lifts or
I hit 50k. Whichever comes first.
Keep Writing.
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