Saturday, May 08, 2010

Feeling The Fear

"You realize you just paid good money to write 2500 words a week for the next 12 weeks?"
Well, when you put it like that it does sound a tad insane, doesn't it?

This week I signed up for a writing course to help me get my NaNoWriMo novel from first draft to something closer to being publishable. If I finish the course it will be the first writing course I have ever finished. I am hoping that having 50K words already on paper will help. So far I have procrastinated writing the first assignment which is 700 words. I have until Sunday at midnight.

I still love the main character, still love the story, especially love a character that appeared out of nowhere. I don't even know why I am writing this post other than to say that I am scared of failing. And I need to say that out loud somewhere. Fear of failing hasn't stopped me from doing a whole lot of things in my life and it won't stop me this time, either. My sister laminated and sent me this cartoon 3 years ago and it sits just below my computer monitor where I can see it all the time.


All this to say if I am scarce around here over the next twelve weeks it's because I'm pounding out a different story on the keyboard than the one you normally read here.

10 comments:

  1. May you reach this goal that you've had for so long. May the Muse be with you.

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  2. Go Mom! You can do it. I know the call of procrastination is sweet, but we can fight it together - I'll finish up my second draft in time to get a copy printed.

    Love you!

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  3. Good luck with the novel. Love the comic strip. A friend gave me one years ago--possibly the same strip. One character says to the other: "You're staring out the window again. a writer should be pounding the keyboard." The other character answers: "Wrong. Typists pound keyboards... Writers stare out windows."

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  4. You will finish it, and it will be amazing, and I will buy a copy.

    the end

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  5. Good luck with the course!

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  6. You go, girl. Honor the gift. So happy for your forward progress! And I will be FIRST in line to buy that book!

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