Rachel Bernstein and I have made it to the midpoint of NaNoWriMo. While we have not actually made it yet to the midway in word count, the golden 25,000 words, we are not far behind and I am confident that we will make it within the weekend. Much has transpired through the course of this NaNo nebula. Social lives have suffered, rational judgment has suffered, sleep has suffered, resistance to caffiene has suffered, friends and lovers have suffered together, emotions have suffered, stability has suffered, money has suffered, my poor Jetta (Gemma) has suffered. Yet, we are doing it, we are perservering, we are sticking to it. Character depth and development has suffered, but the words are there. The ideas are there. Plot has suffered. But, even in their inactivity, our characters are living — and living as recklessly and dangerously as we are in the moment. This is the essence of immediacy in writing. This is the midpoint of the nebula. Let’s take a moment to breathe, to congratulate ourselves, to pat our backs and fix our fenders, and then let’s move on to the next half, the next 25,000 words and beyond. Let’s finish these damned forsaken albatrosses around our necks and free ourselves!
Sufferance
Her grill may have been stolen while she was at rest and her fender might have been cracked when she braked, but she moves on, Gemma moves on and so do I! We shall not be dissuaded!
In this there are a lot of very powerful turns of phrase which suggest your novel may be accumulating these as well! : )…
Just this note/post itself sounds like it is coming from a turning point of a novel itself. : )
Wishing you best luck and calm interludes during this final week…