Week three of Nanowrimo is already here and if you’re anything like me, you’re filled with a combination of excitement and fear. Can you actually reach the lofty goal you’ve set for yourself? Is your novel garbage? Will you ever actually want to look at it again? Are you going to cross the finish line?
It’s completely normal to doubt yourself at this point, and it’s completely normal to think you’ll have to throw away your novel. In fact, I’d go so far as to say throwing away your novel is fairly standard among Nanowrimo participants. I’m certainly not trying to salvage every single novel I’ve written during Nanowrimo.
Whatever your feelings are about your novel, you can overcome them and you can write a novel in a month. All you need to do is believe in yourself and keep writing.
Here’s some advice and inspiration to keep you going:
A Tip
EMBRACE THE CRAZINESS!!!! ~ LadyofPangaea
A Trick
If you really feel like you absolutely must edit more than a couple sentences, add any deleted scenes to a separate file. You might end up wanting them later and either way it’s fiction written during Nanowrimo, so it can be counted to your word count(this is part of how I get such a high word count every year).
Some Inspiration
“A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.”
– Sidney Sheldon
What’s your word count like? Do you hate your novel? Love it? Let me know in the comments section below!