NaNo Updates
We're a week into NaNoWriMo, and if you are participating, I hope it's going well for you! I'm flying right now--I think this is the best outline I've ever had going in, and the payoff is huge. People aren't always doing or saying what I thought they would, or in the way I expected, but I know where I'm going and so far the writing has been pretty easy.
I know that there will be some challenging times later in the month, schedule-wise, so I'm stockpiling words for the holiday period. There will also be more challenging sections of the story--the dreaded mid-book sag. But I have a lot of notes about what might go in there, so hope to be able to keep sailing through.
For this week, then, I'm singing the praises of preparation, and of community--I got a great start the first day at a local write-in. I'd love to find more writers a little more in my age range, though. I felt like an old lady at the write-in!
If you're a NaNer, or even if you aren't, drop something in the comments to tell me how you're doing.
And here are a few of the places I've done some of my writing over the last year.
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| Webb Lake, Maine. I did a lot of plotting here. |
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| Hermit Creek, Grand Canyon |
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| Sawtooth Wilderness, Idaho |
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| Alpine Lakes Wilderness, WA |
Okay, writing on the trail is mostly journaling, but often does involve making notes about ideas I have while walking! All of it worked together to help make me ready to start writing Edited Out on November 1.
Couldn’t resist forwarding this to my other Nano friend, Tim
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