NaNo Countdown

I've changed my outline a handful of times since my last check-in. Something is propelling me to start the story with a different scene (probably all the bad writing that came before it), so I'm doing something I never do and going with my instincts. With the caveat that it's NaNo and it's supposed to suck.

And I don't really believe that. The point of NaNoWriMo is to turn off the inner editor that says "this sucks" and just write. Inevitably, there will be a lot of "suck." The first time I did NaNoWriMo was the first time I'd written anything more than a couple thousand words. I "won," but in the end what I had wasn't a novel but 50,000 words, none of it salvageable. This reality talking, not a lack self-esteem. I finished, but I didn't really write anything. What I did get out of it was a sense of what my shortcomings are, the necessity of planning, and discipline. Those aren't glamorous things, but vital.