November 3, 2004

• "Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it, write something to suit everybody and scarecely anyone will care for it." Jesse Stuart

  
  

  I'm encouraged by the number of people I know who are doing NaNoWriMo this year.  Many of my Xanga friends are signed up and for the first time this year, I have people in my "real" life who are along for the ride.  Not to give him grief, but I think my brother missed the point.  The first day out, in addition to writing his beginning, he did an outline of his plot that was over 2,000 words.  I think he's taking this a LITTLE too seriously.    Either that or he has some serious drug issues that he isn't choosing to share.

  
  

  I have worked feverishly, just trying to write the scenes and paying relatively little attention to the word count.  But I figured out this morning that as of last night the word count on the book stands at 3,719.  So Whew!  I can breathe!  (But not too deeply)  I'm starting off today in mid scene because I didn't finish the one I was doing yesterday.  Which I will admit is a much better place to be that nto finishing, not having the word count, and not knowing what to write next - which has happened to me far more often than I care to admit in prevous NaNo excursions. 

  
  

  I had a really cool experience yesterday.  I've been involved in a small group at church that is made up of writers learning the fine art of writing to encourage others.  And now it occurs to me that I'm not using any of what we learned to write my blogs ... so I'm not sure what that says about me.  But the point of yesterday was that I missed the last meeting.  So the leader called and asked if she could dro pby for a chat.  That was cool.

  
  

  She brought me a copy of the current Christian Writer's Market guide to encourage me to submit more to publishers.  It seeems that the group decided to go together and give me this book as an encouragement because they had that much faith in my ability after the time we've spent together.  Wow - that was humbling.  And it further seems that when they passed the hat to pay for it, they collected a bit more than was needed for the purchase of the book.  So they gave me a card with $94 to be applied to ultility bills. 

  
  

  

  
  

  It's amazing to me.  Simply amazing that people do things like this - for me. 

  
  

  So to honor the faith that they (and YOU) have expressed in me, I am writing and writing and taking this seriously.  Okay, not as seriously as Dave.

  
  

   

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