Day 11: Bored now

Have decided I’m not liking this any more. It’s hard work, and my story is going through a boring bit where I’m moving the main character from one place to another and nothing really is happening apart from lots of tedious scene-setting and exposition. I’m still some distance from the half-way point, and right now another 30K words of the same old shit seems like a tall order if I want to retain my sanity. Today’s 1500 words were like pulling teeth.

However, I guess that’s the point – to keep going through the boring bits until the good bits come round again. I’ve read (on NaNo forums and elsewhere) that there comes a tipping point at about 25K words, and another at about 35K words – the first at half way, and the second when the finish line appears dimly on a distant horizon – when it all suddenly gets a lot easier. I guess it’s like running a marathon – the 10 mile to 15 mile stretch is tough, because you’re already bloody knackered and you’ve still got an unspeakably long distance to travel.

So I’m pushing on, hoping that I don’t hit The Wall too hard and that it will be all downhill from 25K. And yes, I do realise that the whole enterprise is utterly insane – but also, I feel, rather splendidly and eccentrically heroic. A lot like running a marathon.

~ by Hawthorn on November 11, 2009.