Just another writing blog

On the verge of 30k words, which isn’t bad considering we’re now half way through NaNoWriMo. Congrats to everyone who’s made it this far without going bonkers! Only another 15 days to go and we can edit to our hearts content!

In slightly related news, I think I’m going to be unplugging the internet cable during the day when I should be NaNo-ing or working or otherwise. The likes of Twitter and Facebook are proving too tempting and I find myself wasting hours on various websites, Youtube being one of the major culprits. Also, I find myself getting too worked up over the small things, such as seeing friends’ word counts grow while mine seems to stand still. I have to admit that I am growing more and more frustrated with my novel and the way it’s developing because it’s not how I envisioned how it would go when I first started. I wanted Mana, my main character, to be more melancholy and aloof, instead he’s a little too likeable and… well, nice. I suppose it makes him more real, but it means the start of the novel is kind of pointless now. This kind of thing should be put on hold until December, of course, but I can’t help it. My inner-editor keeps rearing her ugly head and slamming the door in her face just isn’t working anymore.

Also, I find myself getting frustrated at my internet friends. I deal with a lot of shit from a fair number of them because I loathe conflict, and really I just want to help them take their minds off whatever is going on in their lives. Unfortunately the same is never true if I’m in the crappy mood. I’m just being mardy during those moments. But I digress. I have been twittering, during the nano process because for me it’s sort of like a big support group, with people in similar positions to myself asking for advice, or people whom I can give advice to, or people who share blog posts about things they think will help. It’s great. Today, though, something happened that made me question whether I should stop doing that. Long story short, I saw a tweet from a follower that made me feel bad for tweeting so much.

Now, okay, it’s not the end of the world if someone’s annoyed I tweet so much because they can just unfollow me. I know that. I just felt… I dunno, like I should apologise for it. Sigh.

So yes. Distinct lack of internet for me. Although I can actually tweet from my phone so it won’t help on that front. Lol fail.