Nanowrimo 2012 - Day 26

Did you think it was over?
That I quit?
That all the faulty technology, failed holiday plans, impossible to formulate homework, plot changes I couldn't keep up with and health problems were going to stop me?

Not on your life.

If you wish to know what has happend the past few days please look at the graph located on this page:

http://nanowrimo.org/en/participants/ninten/novels/codex-shredding/stats

There is a bunch of plateau followed by explosions.
I have had trouble making myself work on the main plot so I started working on back story, diaries and stories. Emails and IM conversations between character set between 70-100 years into the future anaylyzing the event which my story was supposed to be about.

It's strange.
Weird.
Don't even know what genre it falls into..."Post-Modern Fourth Wall Jumping Self Criticizing" perhaps?

Don't look at me.

I don't writer or teach English Literature, I just help to lower the standards so others can be more easily published (Ha just kidding, Stephanie Myers I'm looking at you) but regardless of one's taste one has to enjoy words and their forms to do something as stupid as first draft writing in a month.

I'm drained and although it feels like I haven't...I still have managed to make headway (although less than twenty-thousand words left there are other writing issues demanding immediate attention) but I do regret slacking on the blog...but something has to give.

What is a bit of sanity loss?
Worst case you just roll another character sheet, right?
Oh wait.
That's me getting way too meta again.
Gotta stop that before reality breaks down.
At least dividing by zero hasn't happened on this blog...yet...

All the meta-meme related mind rolling around aside...the week is coming to an end sooner than I like and with it comes to end of what is always a beautiful, fun and tortured month of creation.

I'm not entirely sure why but this year has felt especially painful.
I have had some personal issues I won't bring up.
But as dark as the material in the book is, I'm hoping the positive and good can also be seen.

Where there is darkness the light shines ever so brighter.
But sometimes we see things best left alone.
What do we do then?
In this writer's case, dive head first back into the novel smashing his keyboard over anything that moves until the last twenty-thousand words are finished and I can safely begin to panic about homework and writing a ninety page thesis.

Hooray!
-Matt