NaNoWriMo 2010: Day 8

I am officially in week 2. Or did that start yesterday? At any rate, this is the week when you're supposed to be kind to yourself and give yourself a break if things aren't clickin along as they're supposed to. this is the week where it feels useless and futile to continue, where all hopes of becoming a writer or even writing a coherent sentence is lost.

I had about 1000 words today, 670 less than the daily goal. I hit a wall in the story. What was supposed to be so easy, suddenly appears to be a hole in the story. i know, i'm supposed to just go on, but i say that a lot. Ok, skip this, move on. Cant figure out which character is sitting next to hero, ok, just put in a list of 3, and come back to it later, except hero has dialogue with that list of 3 and the people on that list of 3 range from allies to enemies.

alls i'm sayin is that it's hard to just skip and move on. too many of those, and you've left way too many holes in your story. you cant move forward if you dont know what happened in the past, can you?

But you can. i think you can. i think that writers often mistakenly think that everything needs to be tied up perfectly before you move on. It doesnt. It really doesnt. Especially because often times you dont know how to tie up things until you've plowed through the future and realize what you want to happen in the past.

ok, it's late for me here. i've been staying up way too late. i'm still taking this herbal remedy for my stomach issues and i spend my evenings with a very unhappy stomach, which delays the time i go to bed. i dont know. another long winded way of saying i have insomnia.