Hey everybody,
I know, its been a while. Its been a really busy couple of days for me. Today's word count goal is 18,333, and I am currently sitting at 20,463! I am still just over one day ahead with the goals, however I haven't written anything today. It is 7pm here right now, so I still have time, but I have been dealing with a major case of writers block all day.
I actually had my friend Isadora come to visit me at University for the weekend. She got here at one o'clock on Friday, and she left at quarter to eight this morning. She is one of my best friends from back home, and I was so happy to have her here for a few days. I ended up not writing anything on Friday, but I did catch up again on Saturday, and on Sunday I got back to being one day ahead and yesterday I managed to get my word count up to two days ahead. Isadora is the same friend who has been super invested in my story as I've been writing, so I wrote a lot while she was here so that she could read the chapters that I was finishing.
Her being here is also the reason why I haven't updated the blog in a few days, and why I don't have a new video up on youtube. I was going to do a week one update, but that kind of got pushed aside since I wanted to spend as much time with Isadora as I could. She and I had a ton of fun while she was here, but now that she is gone I seem to have hit a bit of a block. I did attempt to start the next chapter of Scarlett, which would now be chapter thirteen, but I only got down a couple of sentences before I realized that I had no idea how I wanted to approach the chapter. It is still within the chapters that I had outlined from before the beginning of NaNoWriMo, so I know WHAT will be in the chapter, but I just can't seem to figure out HOW I want to write that content.
This is a really frustrating time for me to be having this because I wanted to write like a machine this week. This weekend I have to begin working on all of my essays for my classes, and I didn't want to have to worry about NaNoWriMo while I was working on them. I was hoping that I could be two or three days ahead when Friday hit so that I could just concentrate on writing the rough drafts for those. Plus, one of the assignments that I have to have done by Wednesday next week is a review for a play. A friend managed to get me tickets to see Flashdance the Musical live this weekend, which I have been super stoked about. I have never seen a musical performed live, and it is something that I have always wanted to do. I love musicals, and I think that seeing one live would just be spectacular. My professor gave me permission to use Flashdance as the play for my review, but now I am going to have a big chunk of time where I can't do any writing for NaNoWriMo because I will be out of town to watch it, and as soon as I get home that night I am going to want to write my review so that the play is still fresh in my head.
If I can manage to get that assignment done, as well as the rough drafts for the other three essays that I have to write done this weekend, then I will definitely consider it a success. I just don't want to fall behind on my novel in the process, especially when I have been having so much fun with this story and the cast of characters that I have given it. (Plus I know that if I don't finish it, Isadora will kill me via Skype call).
I hope that you all are keeping up with your word count goals, and I hope that you aren't having as much difficulty as I am with your last couple of weeks of NaNoWriMo. Chapters nine through twelve of Scarlett are now available to read here, so feel free to check it out.
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Lots of NaNo-Love,
Helen.
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