Half Way There!
Just posted my NaNoWriMo stats: 26,687 words, which is over half way to meeting the goals of the NaNoWriMo. The challenge: write a novel in 30 days, or at least 50,000 words. I’m well on my way there.
This is exciting. I love the characters in this novel, and I have reached the point where I am writing to find out what happens. I was talking about the novel to my family, and my youngest daughter said, “You are talking about your writing as if you can’t wait to see what happens next.” There is so much truth to this statement, yet it is hard to express. Just like with my first novel, I am at a point where I write events happening to the characters and I’m sometimes as surprised as the characters. And, the characters themselves have become friends, in a weird sense.
No, I’m not a lonely old man needing to create friends because I have none. However, I challenge you to create really great characters and then spend as much time as I have spent in the past two weeks getting to know them, understand them, jumping in their heads and feeling their emotions, and then see how you refer to your characters.
So goes the strange road of the writer, and this strange writer is tired. going to bed.
- Glenn
