National Novel Writer’s month is fast approaching, and I
don’t have any innovative ideas for a story. In fact, of late all the stories I
seem to be formulating have the same basic premise. Maybe if I ever manage to
finish one of these stories, I’ll get that idea out of my head and I can move
on to other things.
And I can’t get over how fast this year has gone. It seems
like one minute it was June and I had plenty of time to come up with a premise,
and the next it was October. Of course, back in July and August I did do a lot
of writing.
I did do Camp Nano this year for the first time, and I
worked on the story I started last November (the Nano I didn’t complete because
a speeding drunk didn’t see the red light.) I did get quite a bit done on that
story during Camp Nano, and I even finished the challenge, big time. I just
didn’t reach “The End”.
And I should have continued working on it during August,
but well, even before I dove into that challenge, my mind kept going back to
another story of mine. (I know I already mentioned this.) I liked the premise
for the story, I didn’t like how I had it opening.
Anyway, come August, I started over from scratch on that
story and beat my July totals in like two weeks! I was moving right along, then
long before I finished that story (though making more headway then I had
previously) I got to thinking about another one of my unfinished stories.
All through the month of September I tried to stick to the
August story, but kept going back to my latest one.
Frankly, I’m beginning to wonder how I ever managed to get
any stories to “The End” at all the way I keep coming up blank on the story I’m
trying to work on while yet another story invades my imagination. I have so
many unfinished stories you would think I never finish anything.
But I have. I have reached “The End” six times, though I
then later lost the first six chapters of one of those and I’ve yet to recreate
or fix that problem. And I have a few which are way over the preferred word
count for my genre, but they aren’t anywhere near a stopping point. And
frankly, I think that might just be why I’m blocked on those stories, which is
rather dumb after all the times I told Konnie not to worry about her word count
and to just get her story down.
Maybe it’s time I took my own advice.
Happy writing everyone. 😊