How did Nano go this year?
This year I won. Some will say I won by cheating. Some say I didn't write a novel- I didn't.
But what I learned this year was something I needed to learn.
1-Sometimes writing is not easy.
I normally get ideas and the words just flow or I can write for hours on end. This year it didn't turn out that way. All the ideas I had weren't ready to be written. But I wrote anyways. I wrote what was in my heart, what was in my mind and on my thoughts. When I was awake and when I was half asleep.
2- Keep on writing regardless
I learned that I need to keep on writing regardless of if it is easy or not. I consider myself to be a writer. Writers write. End of story.
3- Try and stay on track when writing
I didn't try and work on the story ideas until later. I let me mind ramble and other ideas come. It was then harder to go back to the stories - I started three novels this year. I should have stuck with one idea and worked it and asked questions until I could think of no more, before starting a new idea. The other two ideas got stuck like the first.
My characters kept on asking questions that had nothing to do with the plot. I threw things at them and they didn't seem to notice. They want those questions answered. I need to find the answers so I can write there stories.
4- Writing down my thoughts was helpful
It opened my eyes to a new thought, that I had been struggling with. This was good in a way, but it was also bad, because it then made me sad.
I can't wait for Nano next year. I will have these ideas ready to go and hopefully they will be written and I will have other stories to tell.