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First day of NaNoWriMo! Are you participating?
Posted November 1, 2015
by Olga
I’m in, but I’m officially a “rebel” – got this term from the wonderful Laura Roberts’ book I recently accidentally got, A Cheater’s Guide to NaNoWriMo: Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Winning This November (Write Better Books Book 1)
I didn’t even know at the time of getting this book I want to participate :)
But all the appearing details, all was contributing to this my desire to participate.
Especially Laura’s book, which from a perceivedly rigid notion of pursuing the goal of 50000 words in a month, and writing a novel (and I write non-fiction) – took it to an event I can take on my terms, thinking what’s best for me.
And I defined my goal as finding this place of writing where I can freely say what I have to say. This is the month of Freedom in this sense. :)
And I see that my writing changed already:
- I started to write freer, the way I write when I do a lot of Morning Pages for days.
- I sat writing in the middle of the day! I usually felt like I needed justification for it, like I was self-indulging in writing. I was dreaming of the time when I’m able to sit and write, feeling the full right to do it. So my dream came true!!!
- I’m used to write every chapter almost immediately from start to finish, editing it as I go. When I moved forward – the previous chapter was done, I put on it the yellow status “Ready, reread :)” (in Scrivener it’s such fun to add these customized labels and add them! One of my favorite toys :) I have these label colors showing up in Binder, so I see immediately, what’s ready and what’s not.)
And today I felt like writing drafts and moving forward, no editing! I will see how it works forward, but it contributes to writing freer, too, and to overall feeling freer, too. - Even realizing these goals was so refreshing, triggering, exciting, focusing! I’m glad I came here. :)
I wrote today to the music of my precious Fragrance of Dark Coffee:
(“Godot – The Fragrance Of Dark Coffee – Rain + Fire Ambiance”: video)
Here is a longer version.
And (not “but”, by Bashar!) I also created yesterday a playlist on YouTube, including many clips on Writing – mostly from Abraham-Hicks, very inspiring! You’re welcome to use it:
