Decided to kick it old school today and actually busted out one of my composition notebooks and a pen to work on a scene I’ve been struggling to finish for a long time, among the many, MANY, other scenes for my CCR story. 😛 It’s nice to take a break from the computer every once in a while. There’s something about the potential a blank page has, the way it feels under the fingertips, that is oddly…freeing and inspiring. I don’t know, maybe that’s the traditionalist, “back-in-my-day” part of me talking, but not having to stare a bright white screen for hours on end certainly helped get my creative juices flowing, and it was nostalgic; I hand-wrote the first eight chapters of my CCR story in a notebook, based on a dream I had one day that I simply couldn’t get out of my head. I eventually thought, maybe if I write it down, it’ll leave me alone. Then, once I started writing, I thought, maybe I can turn this into a story. The rest, as they say, is history. 😉 Anyway, besides the sentimental value that hand writing can bring to many of us, I find that my ability to process a scenario in my head and figure out (roughly) what I want my characters to say and how I want them to say it is easier for me to do when I’ve got a pen in my hand rather than a keyboard in front of me; don’t know why, but hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Just run with it, whatever it is that keeps you writing and increases your NaNoWriMo word count. C’mon guys, only 3(ish) days to go. Hang in there.

My prayer for you all is ideas that don’t stop flowing and fingers that don’t stop typing (or pens that don’t run out of ink, depending on your medium 😛 ).

Much love,

YW

P.S. Current word count = 44,284 words!!! #PTL