Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Camp Nano




So, I seem to remember my blog for this event every month.  Working on building up other posts as well.  What is this event? It is the Insecure Writer's Support Group, hosted by Alex J. Cavanaugh. All posts can be found here. 

We share our goals and insecurities once a month, as well as successes.  

I maintained writing far more continually this past month than I have in a good while.  I came within 8 scenes of finishing a project and then my brain bailed on me.  Or perhaps it was will power.  

Anyhow, I'm fairly certain I will get to finishing it in August.  

In the duration, I signed up for camp nano.  Am I masochist? I have discussed in previous posts that my greatest insecurity of the past few years has been finishing a project.  A novel.  I came within 8 scenes and stopped not even a full month ago and now I'm committing myself to something new and different, and meant to be written from beginning to completion in a month. 

Not only that, but because of work and a few complications, I hadn't gotten around to really starting it until last night.   

On the flip side, I guess it's an accomplishment.  I just keep going.  *cue Ellen Degeneres as Dory* "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming."

But I am.  

And if I must say so, I feel the project is off to a good start.  Yes, it might be that honeymoon phase where it's hard to see the flaws in my own work, but... whatever.  It's going.  An it is't bad. Yet. 

LOL. 


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12 comments:

  1. I can't tell you how many times I come thisclose to finishing something then I "suddenly" get this amazing new idea. Or worse, I finish, but then never get around to editing. But this year will be different. I WILL finish my WIP and I WILL either query or enter into a contest with it. I WILL I WILL I WILL :)

    Meredith
    Meredith’s Musings

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  2. Yes, Meredith, you WILL. :D And I will too. I so very much identify with your sentiment :)

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  3. I am going to hold you to that! :) We really WILL finish a project this year. Completely finish!

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    1. Awesome! We will be "Writing to Complete Draft/Revising to Finish Buddies!"

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  4. I'm a big finisher, but by the time I get to the end, it's all crazy discombobulated. So even after I finish, I basically have to start all over again. So I finish the rough, then I put it away to write that shiny new idea, and then I go back and start combing through the first one.

    It's really laborious...

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    1. Oh, that was how I worked some years ago! When finishing things actually *happened.* Sometimes the craziness at the end is what is hard to push through for me. I have been working on giving myself more rope by the end of a project, rather than getting there and thinking"NO! NO! NO!" because the road the characters chose to get to the finish line completely disrupts the sequence of events I originally had in mind, turning the whole thing into a massive pile of chaos.

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  5. I hope the words continue to flow for you all month.

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  6. Starting it is half the battle. Keep up the awesome! :)

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  7. As long as you keep going past the point you normally - end. Always great to have a new project though :) I haven't finished a project in ages too.

    ........dhole

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  8. Shiny new ideas are so distracting. I want to hear you finished your other project though. :)

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  9. Keep going!! And Yay! Happy IWSG Day!

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