Dateline 11-3-2017

I'm sort of excited to start day three of my involvement in this year's NaNoWriMo challenge. Being that I write these daily posts first thing in the morning, I've only gotten two days of novel writing under my belt and will get to today's effort later in the evening.

I noted that I'm only sort of excited because, in all honesty, I'm not all that inspired by what I've managed to commit to the page so far but I do enjoy the conceptual gimmick that's driving the story and am having fun trying to solve the puzzle to get it to work as well as I see it playing out in my head.

I think the biggest problem is my decision to fly by the seat of my pants and go into this challenge without doing any planning at all. I think that I could have done this with ease about four years ago when I was very prolific when it came to writing fiction, but now that I mainly write these non-fiction blog post, my head doesn't quite work the same since I now write more about what I experience over making stuff up in my head to create instead of control the story.

That's not to say that I don't think that I can eventually get back into a fictional groove, I just might need to do a little more mental stretching as I attempt to find the story that speaks to me while not taking a break from the marathon. I'm hoping to stumble onto a new starting point as I continue to work through the old one.

I feel like my best case scenario is that I will find my direction soon and then either delete or rework what I've written so far. Meanwhile, for the worst case scenario, I'll end this challenge with a complete first attempt at writing a novel from scratch that is a complete piece of garbage. 

In all honesty, I'm fine with either outcome because from what I've learned from trying so many things, more often than not, your first attempt at anything is often the worst you will ever do. I was just hoping that with all of my years of screenwriting under my belt I'd have a bit of a head start.

Either way, I am way more than just sort of excited about the fact that I've been dancing with fiction as much as I have in recent months. As much as I enjoy this blog as an outlet for sharing what I'm up to, I really miss the many hours I've spent in my head sculpting tales with my imagination and can't wait to figure out how to work in both worlds.

We'll see what happens, and as always, I'll check in tomorrow with what does. 

Talk to you then,

The Wicker Breaker

P.S. If you are reading this and playing along with this year's NaNoWriMo feel free to add fubunker as your writing buddy and I will buddy you back.