It's 6:36 in the morning and I've already gotten so much done today. I went to bed early last night in preparation for today. I didn't have lesson plans prepared and I knew I was going to have to give some time this morning to the writing.
I got the lesson plans done in about 20 minutes, which was refreshing, and was soon moving on to my own creative work. I don't work from outlines too much. I had one for my earlier novel idea, but it has since gotten scrapped as being too ambitious. I've got a new idea now and I haven't gone about outlining yet (maybe something I'll do later today), but I think I've found my new beginning and a new emotional core for my protagonist, John. I've also got a character I think is fantastic in John's friend Willy. I'm starting to feel these guys a little more. I've dedicated a lot of time thinking about them in the last...year? Has that been how long I've been stewing about this? Yikes. I'm glad NaNoWriMo is here and I'm a part of it because I need some help with the forward momentum of this project.
Word Count: 1,147
Total Word Count: 2595
Sample Sentence/s:
John eventually turned into a gravel pullout alongside the river. The current had cut into the landscape and it was a rocky downhill climb to the river. These weren’t Willy’s favorite fishing holes. He preferred finding places where you could simply take a couple of steps from the rig and be ankle deep in river water, but he wasn’t about to complain.
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