Arg!!! I have no plot! Well, sort of, but I can’t move the action along! I’m stuck on the same day! It’s “Groundhog Day” all over again [and again and again]. I find it interesting that I have no problems whatsoever writing in HERE, where it’s just ME, but when I try to write a story about Bill and Will and Violet, I go blank. I am not a person who usually goes blank. We’re in Bismarck at Dad and Verena’s wedding celebration, so I found myself writing in Jiffy Lube to try to keep up. It’s hard to write 2000 words a day every day, no fail. And my graph doesn’t show up anymore on the NaNo site, so I can’t tell if I’m on target with my word count, behind, and me being the competitive person I am, that kind of sucks. But I keep going. I feel like my character is trapped in a dream [much as I feel right now] from which he cannot escape.
Maybe on Monday I’ll stop and do some more thinking about plot, scenes, and how to get from point A to point B [thanks for that advice, Lanie - you ROCK!]. Novel writing is a whole new ballgame, and one that I can see its potential for greatness, but something that I have not quite grasped HOW to do. But I trust I will figure it out, if I just keep walking forward. Eventually I’ll HAVE to get out of the muck, provided I don’t dig myself into deeper muck in the process. Just keep writing, just keep writing. I’m the Dory of the literary world, for sure! Except my movie is called, “Finding Action!”