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First word: Laurelyn
Last word: stairs
Random sentence: Both men had their suit jackets draped over one arm, their ties loosened in deliberate casualness.
From TC…Yesterday I wrote:
I broke 10K today. I’m starting to think that my problem won’t be reaching 50K, it’ll be reaching the end of the story by 50K.
This may not sound like a problem, but for me it is. Word count has never been a problem for me. Reaching THE END has. I *really* want to have some semblance of an ending at the end of the month.
Bellman replied:
(BTW, Beaver, no one said you had to finish in 50,000 words. You just have to reach 50,000. I propose a TC “NaNoFinishMo” in December-Jan for those who need it. That’ll get everyone done in time for NaNoEdMo in March…)
Oh, I know that. I’m just afraid that if I don’t get finished (and by finished I mean just get to where I think the story ends) by the end of the month, I’m afraid that what I’ll end up with is yet another 1/2 to 3/4s finished novel. December, at least the first 2/3s, will not be conducive to me continuing on with 2-3 hours a day of novel writing (that’s how long it’s been taking me to make the word count–and that’s all I’m doing, I stop once I get the daily allotment done). I mean, seriously, I have *enough* of those. What is wrong with me that I can get that far, and then I let them languish? It’s not because I’ve lost interest. I’m still very invested in all my unfinished novels. I guess if I’m honest with myself, I clearly have a mental block about finishing–on some level I’m scared to. I think if I could just finish one novel, then I could finish all the others too. Does that make any sense? So that’s why I want to actually *finish* and not just reach 50K.
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