Burning up some Nanowrimo...

Ok, this has been a very unusual Sunday at my house.  I skipped church.  I know I know – sue me.  And then I scrapped my NaNoWriMo project.  But I slept late and got up while hubby was preparing for work.  He made the two of us a nice breakfast and off he went.  I brushed my hair and washed my face and headed for the laptop computer to see what could be done about my NaNo.  I sat looking over the pages from the previous days and my 16,094 word count and pretty much found it an annoying disorganized mess.  So after trying unsuccessfully to categorize and separate out the different kinds of writing, I gave up.  I had some sections of the novel written as a journal, some were memories of an earlier time and some were straight narration.  Well, it was confusing crap.  So I started over with a blank word document and set my word count on the NaNoWriMo.org website back to zero.  (gulp!) 

I started in with a new vision and wrote for a while.  After a while I’d get to a point where I remembered something I had written in the first draft and so I’d go cut and paste it into the new document.  It was kind of an interesting process. 

At 12:30 pm I had zero words

1:00 – 618 words

2:00 - 3102 words

3:00 - 4478 words

4:00 - 5429 words

And at 5:00 I had 6811 words.

Now THAT was FUN!

I’m taking a break fairly often and since the dogs keep wanting to be let out and then let in – I’m interrupted often but I think that might actually be good for me, who knows.  So, I’ll see how far I can get for a while and then lay it down until tomorrow.  If I get really frustrated with my word count I’ll just go word mining in the old document and cut and paste a really big chunk.  But at the moment the story line still kinda makes sense and I’d like to keep it that way.  I guess that's the tension between simply writing first draft and allowing it to be what it is (crap) or going back in and messing around with the stuff that has already been written.  Anyway, I'm feeling better about the project and as far as I'm concerned - that is the point.