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NaNoWriMo Day Nineteen

19/11/2014

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Total Word Count: 37,546           Today's Word Count: 2,416
Hoarding and Flow

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I used to have a serious hoarding habit; I hoarded bits of writing and snippets in notebooks because I thought that one day it might all fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and make one 'proper' story. Even if it didn't, I would have all of this stuff to fall back on when the muse, who made infrequent visits, stopped calling altogether
Consequently, I have quite a lot of 
Works In Progress....

I realised that not everything I wrote would be ‘usable’ but it was all ‘useful’.

Some of it is a warm up, the scales and arpeggios or the stretches, and like a musician or dancer, if you practice your art daily, you develop fluency and that becomes FLOW.

Once I got into the FLOW  of DAILY writing, I learned the one key lesson which enabled me to finish a novel 

I know that the writing muse does not ration the words;  I ration my own words through lack of flow.

As soon as I learned the skill of just writing, turning off the internal editor, writing what I feel..... then a new habit formed and a bit like charging a car battery, the more I write the more the words flow.

Some days it has been a struggle to add words to the 37,500+ in 19 days; but I have to write every day, (even though I have not added words to the NaNo novel everyday). On those days I write longhand, sketches, ideas, connections, things I have noticed; but I write something every day.

Sometimes the flow turns to a trickle and some days the words are not necessarily the right ones, but they are flowing today and I am glad I learned how to turn on the taps...

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