2007-11-12 7:23 p.m.
20 Thousand Words
I spent 7 hours today working on my novel. 7 HOURS.
Of course, this is because I was behind by about 12,000 words and needed to catch up because this would be my last chance, otherwise. But oh, my god. It was hard. Really hard.
But I feel really proud of myself, and totally relieved, and I have new confidence that I can actually complete this 50,000 word novel by the end of the month. As an added bonus, no last-minute paper for school will EVER frighten me again. After writing 12,000 words in one day (that's more than 16 pages single-spaced, which is about four times as long as my longest ever university paper) I will never have any reason to fear writing long papers. Especially not research papers, where all the work is already done and I just need to synthesize and comment - because this was 12,000 words of stuff that I was purely making up on the spot.
I honestly didn't know I had it in me.
I've reached a new level with my writing, too. I've managed to keep a coherent, mostly interesting story flowing, although the dialogue does get rather weighty in some places since it's one of the main tools I'm using to get information and situations conveyed. I need to start following my rule about when the dialogue gets too long, blow something up in the next room.
So yeah. By Thursday I should have 25k, and therefore be halfway done. I'm so thrilled with myself. This is amazing.
In other news, I'm less emo now. My friends and I went on a road trip on Saturday. And yesterday a friend and I went to a bellydance festival. We're going to take classes together next semester, possibly. So that will be very cool. I've gotten a whole bunch of Middle Eastern, Gypsy, and Flamenco music. It makes me happy. I'm listening to some of it now. *glee*
I still feel a bit insane. I was feeling especially crazy yesterday after I got back from the festival and got on the phone with another friend. She and I are in the middle of an intense situation. You could call it a religious experience, almost, since it's forcing both of us to reevaluate our belief systems too. Especially on the subject of God. I won't bore you with the details, but it's been pretty intense and it's making me feel a bit insane. I feel like my soul and mind are being put through a sieve.
What else is going on? Not much that I can think of. Just wanted to update this, because I've gotten kind of bad about that.
