Oh dear. "Oh, yes, I'm going to post every few days..."
Right.
Anyway, we're more than halfway through Camp NaNoWriMo. I'm almost 70% of the way to my goal, which is fortunate because I only have till the morning of the 26th to hit it. However, I've been slowing down in the past week. A couple of days where I got nothing written really hit my motivation and now...
Well, when I actually get sat down and writing, it's fine - I can bang out a few thousand words in a couple of hours. 3k evenings are not unusual. But it's the "getting my brain to focus" bit which is causing the real problems. For example - I am writing this in my lunch break. My brain tells me that really I should be working on my novel, but I don't feel like it. Argh. How do I get my mind in the right place?
In other news, I keep finding gaping characterisation issues. Oh, the hatred of two-dimensional characters. Just sitting there, failing to actually engage the reader. They're fully formed in my head, but as soon as I start writing them they sort of deflate. It's most annoying.
I also made the mistake of googling frostbite yesterday. I needed some more information on causes and symptoms. I did not need images of severely frostbitten digits during my lunch break. Ugh. Note to self: do not search potentially stomach-turning things while eating.
Right, let's see if I can salvage what remains of my lunch break for proper writing...
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