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NaNoWriMo Prep Viking Style
Or how to pump yourself up in the last few days of October, so you can start out ready to write in November. Let’s Go Writer Vikings!
Every year I try to plan ahead for NaNoWriMo because I know the pressure this challenge brings for me. Plus I really want to win, who doesn’t?
How My November’s Usually Go
Day One is filled with excitement and the feeling that anything can happen. I usually write a couple thousand words without even realizing it.
The whole First Week for me flies by in a bliss of words, and sore wrist from typing.
Then in the Second Week, I start to doubt myself. I question everything I wrote the week before, I doubt the storyline, the characters, and slowly I begin to think I’ve lost my mind. I panic a little thinking I’ll have to change everything, that this story is a bottomless pit for bad ideas.
Week Three comes around, and I realize that I’ve now written two different stories. But the deadline is closing in, so I wonder if I can work some kind of magic and make it work. Maybe I could go the “Pulp Fiction” movie way and mesh the stories in the end?
Reality hits me like a bowling ball bag on the Fourth Week. Where I usually end up staring at myself in the mirror, saying over and over, “you are not Quentin…
