My Nerdfighter story. Strap in. This is going to be a long one.
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Must’ve been asleep for days.
With a refreshed and renewed outlook, I’m confident I’ll be finished with my new novel’s first draft on December 22nd.
It helps that we watched the movie that inspired it (it’s an annual kind of movie) and I’ve been continuing to watch Christine Riccio‘s book-writing vlogs for extra inspiration (of the relatable, cathartic variety.)
One thing I’m going to try to keep up with my writing from now on is not pressuring myself and just writing the story. I get too excited and ahead of myself, and that just puts too much pressure on me. I have two stories to polish and perfect, and it’s enjoyable to play with them. There’s no reason for me to think too far ahead. I’m not even going to think about queries until both novels have been heavily revised. Then we’ll go from there.
Have Christine’s videos made me want to thoroughly edit before sending out again? Yes. Am I a little jealous, though, that she can write a 160,000 word draft? Also yes. My editing brain is just like “?!” about it, because that’s far too long! 😆 My beta reading friends would not be happy with me if I gave them a draft that long.
Anyway, otherwise, as I said in my video up above, I’m looking forward to Christmas/New Year’s. I’m planning to take a break from writing for at least a week in January. We’ll see how that goes.
Until next time,
It starts…
Happy First Day of NaNoWriMo 2023!!!
I’ve written 1,025 words so far but my goal every day* is to write at least 2,000 words. I have to see how much I can do at work versus when I’m at home. Both have their distractions — that totally make sense, by the way, like having to do actual work and wanting to spend time with my husband whom I miss all day.
I’m hopeful, while trying to be realistic, too!
Are you participating in NaNoWriMo this year?
*Except the week I have to take off. I’m not pretending I’ll finish the 50,000 words by the end of the month. My goal is to finish 80.000 words by the end of December, though!
“My spoon is too big.”
A lot has been said about Millennials. Too much, probably. We just want to live, but every time we turn around, we’re being blamed for something by Boomers or looked down upon by Gen Z (so the articles would have you believe anyway… what generation is writing those articles, though, hmm?)
As a card-bearing Millennial — it’s called an I.D. card — I can assure you that we’re hard-working, stressed out, and kind of done with the whole generation debate. We graduated college and entered the workforce at a terrible time. Most people I know who got jobs after college were working retail or waiting tables, or both. Being able to afford things was a constant struggle. Living with one’s parents, though not great, was the only way to stay afloat, and moving out of their houses was no walk in the park either. Unless you live in a place with low rent or mortgage rates.
But this post isn’t about complaining. I just wanted to start with some perspective.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the changing landscape on the Internet. Homestar Runner and StrongBad were bickering. Badgers and snakes were badgering and snaking around. When I first started using Facebook, it was only available to people who were currently in college. MySpace was a serious rival, with its customized profiles and annoying autoplay music. I started using Twitter in 2006, back when it was used for people to share their inane, random thoughts. YouTube was random and silly. Things were fun back then.
It’s not surprising that things have changed. Everything has become discussion-based. Argument-based, more like. Even the memes have become a lot more cynical than they used to be. Remember Charlie the Unicorn? That was just dumb; it didn’t have any underlying social commentary.
Please don’t tell me it has underlying social commentary.
I suppose the Internet is just a day-to-day example of the way things change, and how fast change happens. It feels strange to be nostalgic for something so goofy that didn’t really matter, but I suppose every generation has their version of that.
I leave you with this song. It’s about MySpace, played with a ukulele, and it’s on old-school YouTube. You’re welcome.
Sara Mazariegos 