Have you ever had one of those nights that just felt never-ending? Last night the words would not come to me to put down for my novel. My sad face ensued. This morning I decided not to wake up at my normal time of 4:30 A.M. to hopefully provide some rest to my brain to break through the wall I hit last night.
That wall last night was a couple of things coming together to block any creative work to come forth. Life stresses, sleep deprivation, depression (maybe or maybe not caused by the former), and loss of concentration.
I used to run every morning and I can tell you that there is a point at which the things on the previous list would come up to haunt me. I could run for five miles without it feeling like work one day and the next a mile felt like a marathon. This is what it felt like last night to me. The last leg after going so far and the feeling that I cannot take another step.
Woe is me. Right?
Wrong.
It's about persistence and going beyond yourself. It's about pushing past that hurdle and continuing on. So I will be picking myself up from here and driving through the hard times and pushing forward each letter at a time.
Here is today's Daily Writing.
This prompt goes hand in hand with the theme. I want you to describe the seasons either in your world or in our own. Explain them all consecutive or in a broken order. It does not matter so long as you describe them all. Bonus if you use all of the past prompts (landscape, room, building, vehicle, object, sentient body) in your work today.
I hope that this brings out some more words for you if you are doing NaNoWriMo or if you just some time to practice describing things. If nothing else, enjoy yourself!
I want to take this Daily Writing thing further than just something to do. The idea that I keep throwing around is to have a winner chosen each month (from the ~4 weekly winners) for a grand prize. A grand prize of either a free book/ebook/audiobook or the chance to speak with an editor or agent about their work free of charge or any other type of assistance. Maybe a free copy of a writing program. I feel this would bring more people together with more effort in their daily writing.
Overall, I feel that this would just be a great group experience for any type of writer.
Before I sign off for the day I wanted to say that I am still participating in Wribly. We are on stage 3 sub-stage 1 which consists of taking the first part of the story and expanding it to flesh it out. I feel sad that I cannot give anything just yet as I want to finish my novel before delving further into another story.
Though the thoughts are there and I am having to keep them at back so my time is spent wisely on my novel first.
