Now to Think of Something...

I'm doing nanowrimo this year, and I'm already losing steam a little. It's like showers. You don't want to do it, but once you start you can't stop, cause the water (or idea expressing) feels so good, and then you have to get out (to save the environment, or your sanity, whichever the case may be) and you can't wait until you can get back in, but then you don't want to get back in again and try to justify not doing it that day.

Or is it just me who has a love/hate relationship with showers? And writing?

Anywho, I could use some people yelling at me to motivate me sometimes. I think my story's got some potential, if I can just finish it. I have awesome ideas (though I say so myself), but sometimes some difficulty expressing them, and I end up freewriting and losing all control of what I'm saying, and it ends up being wordvomit that somehow flows together and would be golden with a little fine-tuned editing, of which I am incapable because my editing of my own work is anything but fine-tuned, and I end up changing the whole thing, and it becomes cliche and over-used and certainly uninspirational, and I scrap the whole project!

*takes a deep breath*

So... yeah... Also, I'm almost out of mint tea (for the stimulation of brain cells) and no money to buy more. I wonder if my sister will let me borrow some of her "awake" tea...

Edit: A link to my nanowrimo profile is at the bottom of this paragraph, because embedding it in the word "here" wasn't working for me, if you want to read a short synopsis and the first couple paragraphs of what I've got. Also, if anyone is very knowledgeable about dinosaurs, and which would be the most awesome for my story, I'd definitely appreciate the help. I have links of research, but an A-Z list of every dinosaur known to man is exhausting to read through, though it does power my procrastination.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/553564

completely forgot about nanowrimo. the excerpt on your profile is great, the last sentence really makes me want to read the rest of it. so uh, write it.

i used to be obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid so i had a ton of those picture books with diagrams and random info, if i was at home i'd send them to you since we apparently live in the same state :)
» xiaozanghou on 2009-11-04 12:14:15

lol

I've got 14,040 words done so far, which is way above schedule, but I missed the 1,667 word deadline one day and I felt icky. lol

I'm glad you like it. It's a little bizarre, but hopefully better for it. Like Wilde or Poe, as opposed to Dennis Rodman.
» squid on 2009-11-04 03:05:23

I agree on showers - baths too seeing as our shower has been broken for over a year now ><
» Steve (84.70.196.81) on 2009-11-04 04:04:45

Holy crow, a whole year!
How do you survive? I couldn't do only baths. Well, I wouldn't be able to shave in the bathtub for one thing. I'd look like a gorilla if my shower broke. O_O
» squid on 2009-11-04 05:06:59

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