My Freewrite Madness - Day 1 -2188
Day 1
I stayed up to midnight last night and wrote for half an hour. Then, I wrote some more this morning and realized that my writing is taking me in a very different direction from what I thought I might be wanting to write about.
So, I decided to just go for it and let it flow. But I also decided not to publish the whole thing as I originally planned on doing.
Who knows, there is a tiny chance that it will all change again tomorrow and a much bigger chance that I will be absolutely cross-eyed in a few days from now - my mind going wild and switching back and forth.
We shall see.
Enjoy...
The very beginning of my NaNoWriMo - also known as the Freewrite House November Madness
There is a tiny little problem, he told her.
“What?”
She looked up at him with something like love in her eyes. Or was it? At the time, she was sure that it was.
“What is the tiny problem you are talking about?”
“You will need a Visa’” he said.
As if that was the biggest of her problems!!
She had 3 weeks until the date of departure. That is if she really was going to go through with this.
One thing was for sure. She wasn’t too happy with the life she was living and anything - really - anything seemed better than to stay.
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Oh, my. A visa means that she is going to another country and 3 weeks isn't much time for a big decision such as this one. I wonder what she will do. That's it Marianne...go with the flow! : )
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Something good is going to happen I hope and so I hope she will get her visa soon... :)
"my writing is taking me in a very different direction from what I thought I might be wanting to write about" -- a frequent malady, or pleasant surprise, among writers, especially pantsters vs plotters. Even those who outline and plot say this happens, but freewriters have to be the most prone to it.
Freewriting and short stories, something I hardly did much of before Steemit, have affected me as a novelist. I used to disdain short stories and prefer reading and writing novels. Now I like the breezy, simpler, fast-paced medium of the short story. This is challenging! I squeezed out 500 words this morning and have yet to go back for more. I want to dole out information slowly, let characters gradually develop their thoughts, impressions, and judgments, and the slower pace of the novel is killing me. This is a most unexpected and very novel (new!) turn of events. :)
hahaha - now, you might write a novel in short spurts!!
I am planning on setting timers for the month of November - writing time - gardening time- podcast time - other stuff time...
I want to get a lot on the page and then see if I came up with something...
Right now, my brain is in not in the right space for planning - if ever. I seem to hate to stick to plans. All plans. It is a course in a sense...
Oooh, a fellow non-planner - I love it!
Calendars, clocks, commitments: I'm phobic. Booking a hotel, a flight, too far in advance is daunting. Several times in recent years we've had to cancel and it's all non-refundable. The airline canceled flights due to weather and Tim's brother missed a wedding; a year later, the canceled flights cost him $300 in hotel rooms that had a no-refund policy, and of course the airline wasn't covering that. Where we live, weather often causes cancellations. Our son's senior year of h.s., events would be postponed once, twice, then just completely canceled the third time. We'd never seen a winter like that. So, yeah, commitment phobic - that's why I've never attempted NaNoWriMo for the past ten years!
So glad that you are doing it this time - because with us - it is all about the having fun. Finishing is secondary - no matter how far we get - we did something that might turn into something else :)
That's the spirit!
You're the best influence ever in my writing life, Marianne!
Thank you so much. That is such a nice thing to say.
Could she use a MasterCard, instead of a Visa? I like Discover, they pay me more...
Just joking, I'm gonna go read day Two.
hahaha - you are a funny dude :)