This has been my second year at this, and I have given up again. And this time, much much lesser than the 10K from last year, and this is the same storyline even!

In between tooth pains, financial woes and deadlines, I was forced to throw in the towel and join the others who had to give up. I have much more valid ‘excuse’ this year than the first one though, as I was lazy then.

I plan on joining again next year, with a different story. The current one just doesn’t seem to want being written so I shall put her in the chest of ideas for now. Maybe with a new and different story, I will succeed.

For now, I need hot compress for my tooth.

And to all successful WriMos, Congratulations!

Am on Day 20, where I should be at 33,334 words already but am only at 8827. And I am confused as to why.

I already have the images in my head.Scenes, characters, climactic chapters, in betweens– but they won’t get written on paper.

I took the advice of the pep talks that come in my email, and skip to scenes which I find more convenient to write (And scenes I would want to write) and excited to write. But the rest of the words don’t come easy.

For example, I want to write the characterization and brief history of one character to explain why she is the way she is now, but they are on my fingertips but don’t want to be put down.

Seriously, if I comput right now, I may have more words written in my blog entries for this month alone than on my actual NaNo entry.

I know I can write this, since the story is almost finished in my head. And when I dream, it’s the same fantasy story that I come back to. Along with my sketches and little mini-vignettes.

I guess it’s also a wrong timing for my tooth problem too. As I am more keen on earning more money than writing.

I don’t want to give up, but I am seriously thinking it.

My current resolution however is write, write, write… and see what I come up with at the end of November.

*crosses fingers*

Last night was a success! Without any distractions, I got to type down more or less 1,600 words! So tonight, after home work, I’m planning to get offline and continue. I need some serious catching up to do!

And what’s better, I actually got past the bump in the road and moving– albeit, very slow at it. But I’m expecting to hasten my pace once I get through a few smaller bumps in the road.

No excerpts for you guys though. I’m going for quantity over quality here so I don’t think it’d be a pretty sight.

#ahem#

Thank you to our wonderful ML, Tinamats for the cheer. I’m actually planning to go to the write-in