and today, I hit the wall

[rivendellrose]

Tonight, after finally not only catching up over the weekend but getting one day ahead (which I then squandered yesterday, go me :P), I'm having my first official "crap, crap, crap, where are the words?" night of this year's NaNoWriMo experience.

I have no more words. They appear to have all packed up their little wordy bags and left the building. I can only look back with wistful envy at a few days (or, for that matter, weeks or months) ago when my damned muses and my thrice-damned villain wouldn't leave me the hell alone. These are the characters who wouldn't leave me a full day's peace while I was on vacation in Japan. Now, right when I need them most, they appear to have buggered off and left me all alone holding a document full of rambling conversations, tangential back-story and bizarre family dynamics. Real nice.

And yes, I really have given up not thinking of them like people. It helps me to feel that there's someone else to blame. :P

Comments

[shadawyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hit this last week. Unfortunately, between inane amounts of overtime (about 40 hours this month) combined with the normal work day also having been super crazy (I'm now the proud and stressed out owner of most of the VIP accounts), I'm just exhausted and hit the point of apathy on NaNo. I go home and shoot at pixels and worry that I'm not putting in enough volunteer hours at the shelter. It's all I got right now.

*falls over*

/whine

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Bleck, yeah, that sucks. I think you're right to drop out this time, though - it definitely sounds like this is not a good time for NaNo for you. *Pets* Better to not drive yourself crazy over it when there's so much else going on.

[irishninja.livejournal.com]

Ah crumbs! I saw that you caught up and passed me, right quickly, too.

I got caught in a word count doldrums at the end of last week, but I think I'm coming out of it now. It sounds like my situation was similar to yours, so I hope you too can break through the word blockage.

Ganbatte!! ^_^

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Fortunately I seem to have recovered at least to the extent of writing enough words. Still not much in the way of actual plot progression, but... I'm trying not to think at all about that, at this point. :P

[irishninja.livejournal.com]

Well, words are what November is about! You can make them plotty in December! ;D

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I know you're under time pressure with this particular writing project, but sometimes I find it helpful to "walk away" for a bit, not think about writing, and just relax until the words come back. It's worked for me in the past.

Good Luck!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

There's definitely going to be some walking away involved in this, after November is over. Personally, I sometimes find it a little too easy to just wander off and never come back to things... so it's good for me to have a deadline and people keeping me 'honest' on a project, which NaNoWriMo is definitely good for. In other ways, yeah, sometimes I do wish I could just walk away and let things percolate for a bit.

...Or, you know, go back and edit. Dear god, this thing is going to need so much editing...

Thank you!

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Damn...they didn't want you to have a vacation, and now that you're back and on it, THEY decided to take one. But seriously. They'll miss you and come back soon. ;D

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're being all kinds of sulky right now. Well, one in particular is. He's fond of bothering me all day at work, when I can't write, and then effectively just staring at me when I get home and actually have time to write. I may have to go back to writing in my little notebook at work - that seemed to be a good way to trick him into cooperating. ;)