My Precious
Do you know what is the most amazing and important aspect of NaNoWriMo? The dogged determination which arises within us when we come face-to-face with a road block.
For many of us writers, those first few pages [or chapters] of a novel are the most challenging and the most agonizing. We must not only hook our readers, but we must introduce the conflict and the setting in such a way that does not insult our readers’ intelligence. No info dumps. No telling the way it is. Discovery, that is what must comprise those first pages.
Those are our doom, as well.
The first pages/chapters make or break a novel. If I don’t feel it is going well, that particular project is shuffled off to the dreaded back-burner until a much later date.
NaNoWriMo forces us to push through that blockade. If we pay attention to that fact outside of NaNo, we come to learn an important lesson about ourselves and of what we are capable if we simply succumb to determination [or stubbornness] simply to meet a goal.
Why this epiphany took four years of NaNo-ing, I have no idea.
I am a writer. I adore the spinning of the unwritten tale – that lesson waiting to be divulged to others. Each day a new story beckons. One last happy ending. My characters have a life outside of my own, and I always learn from their destiny.
~ Nona ~
"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." ~II Corinthians 5:17
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