NaNoEdMo

I don't know if it shows, but I have become obsessed with Sassafras. I know, what a news flash. The Girl and The Man are starting to sound like kids on long car rides, except they keep asking "Are you done yet?" instead of "Are we there yet?" The last few days I have been really having a hard time thinking of anything to write. I was averaging maybe three paragraphs a day if I was lucky, so I decided to take a little vacation from Sassafras. I'm not going to actually write anything on it until Saturday, but then I'm going to start back with a vengence because just like November was National Novel Writing Month, March is National Novel Editing Month. Hopefully I will be able to do a bonzai editing and finish by April. In NaNoEdMo the goal is to actually edit, and be typing, not just staring at my laptop, for 50 hours in March. About 2 hours a day, and I'm on vaction from the story the first three, so I'm going to be starting 6 hours behind. But I can do it. I'm the Little Engine Who Could.

On a bright note, I thought of what I'm going to write for next NaNoWriMo. I'm going to write the tragic tale of a woman who falls under the evil spell of NaNoWriMo and obsessess about her novel, the characters gradually taking over her every waking minute like the lifesucking vampires good characters are. It'll be sort of a biography.

On another bright note, I drove my little piece of shit car again today and managed to not wreck or kill the engine, so that was a plus. It's hard to get used to shifting. You shouldn't have more pedals than you have feet. It's just not natural. Plus, don't tell anybody, but I'm trying to take mental notes because I think eventually Rick will give Joan driving lessens, and I want to remember as much of the dialog and confusion as possible. Probably not a good thing to be doing when I should just be concentrating on driving, but like I said, those two are lifesucking vampires.

Oh, how hard it is to not open up Windows and start working on my story. Now that I'm on vacaton, I'm coming up with some ideas. I guess it's a good thing to just let the bright ideas simmer in my mind for a few days and see which ones are still bright Saturday. I never realized actually writing was so fun. Sometimes the characters seem to take on a life of their own. Suddenly they're doing something I hadn't thought of when I sat down to write. It's like the characters start writing the story. Either I'm writing a good story, or I'm having a very enjoyable mental breakdown. I'll let you decide which it is.