Just keep writing, just keep writing (in Finding Nemo voice)
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@Susan67 I want to do just a row of laughing faces but the bossy forum bot always tells me off and that I need at least 20 characters 
and 1 for luck
you’ve got me at it now 
Do love an emoji - if only we could write whole books using them
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A book full of Egyptian hieroglyphics…
I was doing well for the first 3-4 days and then it’s a scatterbrain behind the screen infodumping the other days.
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I thought I would be doing much better. I have done so much procrastination! Think I need to have a strong word with myself!
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Two approaches to handle this exist:
- Shame oneself into submission.
- Relax and write anyway.
The self-imposed pressure on finishing 50k words is an oft-mentioned downside to NaNo. There’s a reason the portion of a novel/screenplay between the beginning and ending is called “the muddle in the middle”: it can be a tangled mess.
Which is why some degree of outlining can be helpful. Some swear by the Story Grid, some by K.M. Weiland’s outlining books, and there are various other means. Personally I draft outlines by trial-and-error. It would be ludicrous to assume there’s a universal outlining method, as writers’ brains are wired differently and thus their use of writing tools differ as well.
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thank you claudia not been very productive had vacine booster and spent last few days with a splitting headache and aches:(
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Hope you feel better soon @homeport . That sounds miserable. Glad to see you back here 
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Hope you feel better soon x
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Take your time to write/recover. It sucks when you’re promised life returning to normal and it’s anything but. And worse still, telling others to come do this thing only to realise they all have new issues too and your best laid plans to have everything return to pre-2020 crumble. It would be helpful to also bookmark the Yellow Card System to report adverse events.
Hi all, it seems like the NaNo2021 write-in link that I provided doesn’t work. So here is the new link. Join the chat now! NaNo2021 Write-In 1 - YouTube
This was a great livestream. Thanks @CallyRose for humouring me.
Looking forward to the next write-in (next Saturday, 20 Nov, 6am UK time)… NaNo2021 Write-In 2 - YouTube
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It was a productive start to the day @thegirlclaudia
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How are you feeling @homeport
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How’s the old piece of writing going? Is it still inspiring you @Susan67 ? Think I need @SheilaWrote to paint an idyllic picture of writing beach side in Greece to inspire me now - the housework keeps calling me - I need to imagine an idyllic writing location…
@CallyRose morning! I am 11 days behind. I’ve discovered I probably need to modernise the old writing a bit and I’ve been stuck down a rabbit hole all week. Had loads of bits that didn’t quite flow but I think I have a bit of a plan emerging so will try a bit harder this weekend.
How are you doing? (Joey from friends voice!) Hope you are not procrastinating too much. Only Nano can make you have an urge to do housework instead!
Word count: 1997 《 eek, so behind
you know me so well!!! And - I am so glad that I’m not the only one that does the “How you doing?”. In my head, I’m pitch perfect - in reality - not so good - my kids tend to look at me slightly weirdly.
Sounds like you’re looking at the structure a lot though so you’re moving it all forward so deserve some gold stars 
So much more than writing goes into this.
I am getting words down. They are (to quote @thegirlclaudia ) complete “word vomit”, but I’m trying not to care. Getting words down on paper/screen is a new experience for me. Normally it can take me a month to write 500 but somehow I’ve managed to turn off my inner editor 
I hope you manage to do the same. What’s helping me the most, I think, is having brief titles/scene ideas and then just picking one and sprinting it and not worrying if it actually turns into something else or how incoherent or repetitive it is. Any huge plot holes I keep a note of for another day. Come Dec, I’m going to have a huge mess to sort out and housework will become my favourite thing to do!
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I like that word “word vomit” - it sums up what i have done to date perfectly!
I come from an administration background and typing without correcting/editing goes against everything I know - the struggle is real!
Think I will have a drink or 6 to lubricate my imagination a bit
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@Susan67 I know what you mean. I come from teaching so want to correct everything. I write a lot of reports now, and edit public facing documents so am always in editor mode normally. The struggle really is real!!! But - we can do this - we can splurge, we can vomit. We can write crap. 
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