Am I There Yet?

This is what my living room looks like right now:

“Ah,” you say. “She’s found another excuse not to write."

It’s a brilliant excuse, right? But so not true! 

During this NaNoWriMo, I’ve actually hit the 7,000 word mark, which is 6,999 more words than I thought I’d write. It would help if I had finished researching and outlining this next book I’m writing, but this impetus really gets me to focus on the work. And it is work.

Since I’ve first-drafted (very first-drafted) three chapters and am now facing the brick wall of “Need to Research,” I find that I want to research because the characters are coming into their own and speaking in their own voices, and they want me to get moving so their stories can be resolved. (This will sound a little wacko to most people, but you writers will understand.)

So I give a big thank-you to the NaNo organizers, and I give a very special thank-you to my sister who kicked me in the you-know-what so that I could get off my duff and start producing again. 

Keep writing, and then write some more, whew…