I Survived...

... my first day of NaNoWriMo. I wrote 2,160 words and stopped midstream so I'll have something to jump right back into tomorrow.

That's something else that I've learned on this journey. It's a good thing to stop in the middle of scene rather than writing until you've finished it. If you finish the scene, the next day you come back to a blank screen and have to figure out where to go from there. If you stop mid-scene, the next day you come back and jump right back in where you left off, and the flow continues into the next scene. That's the theory, anyway. Sometimes those peanut butter days don't allow that to happen. But it's the best way to combat the peanut butter, really. Nothing's worse than trying to slog through peanut butter without your knife. If the knife's in hand, getting through it is at least a bit easier.

In the afternoon, I finally managed to finish the short story I've been working on. Another 1,300 words. The story ends with a steamy love scene, which always takes the longest for me to write. I have to make sure the emotional impact is there, that it's much, much more than just "insert Tab A into Slot B." While I write erotic romance, I do NOT write porn. Hence, the more arduous aspect of writing a sex scene. It has to be hot, and it has to have the character's emotions out there, naked and raw. Um, no pun intended.

But, all in all, a fairly productive day at just over 3,400 hundred words. Today, it's back into NaNoWriMo--I'm shooting for at least 2,000 words per day. If I can manage that, I'm jumping back into my werewolf rewrite. All too soon I'm going to have to go back out and get a day job, so I want to take advantage of all this time I have on my hands. Write, write and write some more.

As long as my brain holds out...