Monday, November 10, 2008

Open Arms

She's back! A week long vacation was way too long for me - I missed her so much and spent most of her absence in bed sleeping alone with dreams too bland to even be remembered.

But I found her again today, sitting on my desk, hidden under an unruly pile of paper. Six little cards that are my muse.

When I got home from work today, we crawled into bed with a notebook, my keyboard and fresh index cards for sketching out a story arc for each of my six cards of character. And banged out 1669 words in the space of an hour.

Now, if only I can do that for seven more hours, I'll be all caught up!

I had been feeling so depressed, my story had left me and I thought I might have to give up on NaNoWriMo for this year. I may still not make it, but at least I've got a fighting chance now.

Hurray! My muse is back!

UPDATE: The NaNoWriMo site is overloaded and won't let me access it, so I can't update my wordcount there just yet. But I cranked out 3326 words last night before I had to sleep, bringing my total up to 6705. I still need 11,632 to be caught up to where I need to be at the end of the day, which I can tell you isn't going to happen, but once DM shows up and takes noisy, busy boys away, I can make some serious headway towards chopping that catch-up number down.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

It's surprising where our inspiration comes from...who knows what triggered "her" return, but you made her feel welcome and with luck she'll make her visit a long while

karisma said...

Hooray!!!!!!

PinkPiddyPaws said...

just keep writing.. just keep writing..just keep writing.. (hee..hee.. ala' Dorrie style encouragement)

Jeff said...

It is exciting to be in the project, though, isn't it? I long to be as far along as you with mine!