Bluestalking

I am a bad noodle

I'm supposed to be writing my NaNo bit for today, but you may notice I'm not. My arm hurts. It may be a pinched nerve or something, but I just know it hurts like hades. Not really an excuse not to write, considering I'm propping my left elbow on my nifty Ikea table to write this, and it's pretty much pain free. But still.

Okay, I'm going away now. To write. And I am NOT allowed back on my own blog 'til I've done at least 2,000 words, mister! Even if I whine, ignore me. If I continue whining, take away my privileges, but whatever you do, don't send me to bed early, 'cause you know what?

THAT'S WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO!

That would so not be punishment for me.

I'll be back... Ugh. This writing thing is TOUGH! Sorry, whining. Give me just one more chance. I'll be good! Don't send me to bed!

That was SO lame.

Sunday NaNo Update

Holy cripes, up to almost 6,000 words, but I'm absolutely shocked what's coming out of me. I have a main character who's had a hellish life, but I think I may have to adjust her age upward a bit if I don't want to be attacked in public should this thing ever get published. Then again, I've read books with main characters who were under 10 (my character's 17) and went through modified events similar to what's going on here, in my w-i-p.

The best advice is probably "just keep going." Never mind what comes out, it's a draft. It's just that it's a totally disturbing draft.

To top it off, I can't even get the NaNoWriMo site to load. I'm thinking there are so many people signing up, a couple days late, and trying to upload word totals that the site's crashed. Not too convenient, now is that? Especially not when you're wanting so badly to see that cool little graph showing how much work you've done.

6,000 words. That's around eighteen pages, if you're counting. But, again, how much will turn out to be crap I'll edit out, and how much will I keep.

Sucks having such problems.

At this point I'm wondering, do I go back and edit at all, or do I just keep going forward? There's stuff I want to add, especially really early on, to establish a few things about setting, mostly. Maybe it's best just to keep going and add those in now, then go back and switch things around.

Talk about navel gazing, talking about things that are not only abstract but going on completely off the virtual stage. But this is such a great experience. I wish everyone out there with writing ambitions would consider joining NaNoWriMo. Wait, no I don't. The damned website doesn't even load NOW, much less if everyone in the free world came on board. Forget I said that...