I keep plugging away. I am already only 1000 words short of where I ended last year. I am glad Nano had Neil Gaiman’s pep talk yesterday or whenever it was. About hating your novel. I pretty much hate it right now. But as he advised, you just keeping adding words. I will keep adding words. And right now the end seems WAY too close. I wonder if I can add another 20,000 crappy words to this crappy novel.
Onward.
Congrats on breaking 30k!>>I hate my story right now too. The plot feels so thin, so obvious and cliched. But I’m still trying to plug the holes. I’m also reminding myself that I hated the Amber book so much when I finished NaNo that year that I considered never looking at it again, and I ended up happy with that (9 drafts later), so maybe there is hope.
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Hate is a form of energy. Use the energy, baby, use it! (-:
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Well, that does make me feel better. I hate it so much I’m going to try the peripheral vision thing again and write two little short introductory chapters for Animist and then the Poppy-yanks- the-veil-off-Araminta’s-incest-secret scene and cheat, cheat, cheat, by counting those in my word count. After I do that maybe I’ll feel like returning to Interminable, which is rapidly turning into a dog story more than anything else. An indictment of averse conditioning. Whatever.
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Once introduced, dogs CAN rapidly take over. A story. Or one’s life. The more time I spend with dogs, the less inclined I am to mess with people, certainly.
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