It's Begun - Thirty Days and Nights of Literary Abandon

NaNoWriMo ... I can see how this drives writers crazy.

I'm on Day 2 and doing fairly well so far. I'm a little above my target word count (YAY!) and I've been doing pretty good about not editing. I have to admit that I have gone back and changed a word here or there, but I haven't done anything major. For a girl who loves to make things right as she goes, this is a huge step. The way I've gotten past the urge to edit is to write as quickly as I can and not look back. I'm taking the NaNo tagline "Thirty Days and Nights of Literary Abandon" quite seriously. I've abandoned my ways and flying by the seat of my pants.

Along with this "seat of my pants" thing comes the delightful feeling of "Holy. Crap. This is the WORST thing I've ever written. I mean seriously, why am I even doing this? There's no rescuing this motha." It's daunting to push these thoughts aside and keep going. It's tough to keep your faith alive, when you are the one trying to take it down. I'm starting to believe that it's not the word count or the time frame that drives participants to pulling out their hair and crying into their lattes. It's the epic struggle within us all that we're not good enough, interesting enough or talented enough to be writers.

The cool thing is, we're all writers. Whether one person reads our work or a million, we all writers because we simply put words on a page.

Final Thought: I got my editing fix with this blog! Take that NaNo!!! :)