I can Blerg too :P

OK,  I am blogging again.  I need to write and I need to start getting in the habit of writing daily.    I know I have said it before and will, I am sure, say it again in the future.   I am going to do my best to stay current and blog frequently. 

Here goes:    Lately I have been having a hard time getting past my current novel’s chapter 27.  I am at a point in the novel where I really need to just get it written and done so I can move on to other projects.  Some of the best advice to writers I have ever read was ‘don’t get it right, get it written.’  I have no idea who said it originally, but I like it.  So, today I am writing chapter 28, no matter what.  It may stink, but it really can’t stink more than the 20 or so chapters I wrote at break neck speeds during Nanowrimo. 

National Novel Writing Month… otherwise known as Nanowrimo is in November.  Brought to you by the Office of Letters and Light and information can be found at Nanowrimo.org.    Nano is when novelists, of all levels, pledge to write a novel of 50,000 words within the month of November.  No one ever has to read said novel, and that is probably for the best.  I love Nanowrimo because it encourages me to just write.  Write without editing.  It easier said than done and I do not claim to have perfected it.  I cannot help but correct typos (that I notice) and fix misspellings as I go.   I do, however, leave the real edits for later.  Sometimes, come December, when I look back to what I wrote, it isn't pretty, but it is written.   I then have a baseline from which to build a better crafted story.   

Often the dialogue I write quickly, without over thinking it, is the most natural dialogue I ever write.  Dialogue is not usually well thought out in the real world.  Very few people think before they speak.  A lot of dialogue is reactionary and tends to flow quickly in reality and I find that the less I think about it as I write, the more natural the conversation between characters feels. 

The other parts of my story written during November tend to need a lot of polishing.  I promise you, I know the difference between their and they’re, and too, to or two.  It is funny how, when typing at top speeds, these things tend to mix themselves up on the paper.  Another problem is that I tend to think I typed one thing when I actually typed something different or left out an important word altogether.  It is not until I go back and try to decipher November’s work that I find all the misfirings of my brain. Interesting how it all seemed good when I typed it; someone must be going into my files and messing with me!  

My intention is to write in my blog every week and update all my wonderful readers on all that I have written since my last post…  I hope you both enjoy it!

ALSO:  Boring blog will be the only blog I attempt to write in.  Might as well have 1 general blog where I can blog about any topic and be free to just ramble.