Wednesday, Day 17 of NaNoWriMo and I am more behind than before. I only got 1141 words written before midnight. Inspiration was not happening until late, so I ran out of day, but it is actually better than I thought I would do. I’m up to 45%. Yay! My story has taken another turn, though. It’s like rabbit trails, I’m chasing down another one, all the while wondering what does this have to do with the main plot (do I even have a plot?) of my story? My total word count is now 22477 and I’m still not to the halfway point – short by 2523 – although in days I am past halfway. Yikes! The challenge ends in less than two weeks!
On the other hand, PiBoIdMo is coming along very well. Today (remember I’m writing Wednesday’s post even though it will post on Thursday) I came up with two ideas, which puts my total to 28. I only need two more to complete that challenge, but as I said before, I’ll keep going with that.
The great thing about PiBoIdMo is that I have discovered a community (neighbourhood) of writers. They write children’s books, where my interest lies. One writer posts prompts to inspire us, and today the one she shared really did give me an idea. Then later another writer shared something so cute, a funny photo she took of a little lizard – and I had another idea! This idea, though, really took off for me and I feel good about it. I think it would make a great picture book with some humour in it. Of course, I feel I would have to give credit by mentioning the above inspiring writer as the one who gave me the fun idea. (She said she has an idea for him too.)
I don’t know how many of my Picture Book Ideas will make good stories, but when the challenge is over I will have to go through them all and seriously work on them to see what I can do to make them book worthy.
I worked on Valley Sunshine awhile today which is one reason I didn’t get as much written for NaNo, but VS has to get completed and mailed out. Yesterday!
Do you ever get yourself overbooked with writing projects?
Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂
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