Past the Middle Mark Camp Check-In

I remember in November I was so stoked about riding the accountability train. I had that shit down during NaNoWriMo. Everyone knew I was participating. Everyone knew my goal was that 50k word count. Everyone knew which days I did or did not write because I posted my day’s count almost everywhere. I owned November.

The same cannot be said for Camp NaNo. Not by a long shot.

I’m slightly disappointed that I’m not further along 18 days into the challenge, but my conditions are 180 degrees different now in April than they were five months ago. For one, I can’t just sit at my computer four afternoons a week and write my heart out. I am no longer unemployed with the freedom to do what I want, when I want. Man, I miss that. Two, my free time is bloody limited and I’m resentful that the majority of it is spent in front of a computer. Come on, a large part of my day job has me in front of a computer. Who can blame me? Three, I have a really important deadline for the end of the month and fine-tuning my story for that deadline is more important to me than Camp.

Writing is a labour of love. Underline labour.

Still, it is love, and I’ve made headway this week. I spontaneously, in a way, got Tuesday off and decided to take a break from editing and get some words down. I needed the break anyway since there’s a glaring part of my story I’m having difficulty fixing. That in itself is driving me slightly nutty. As it is, I have just under a thousand words I need to cut from said story before I can hand it. No pressure.

Anyway, I did pretty well on my day of writing. After realizing I had deleted the only words I’d written for Camp, aside from my outline, I started over. Shit happens. Those roughly 200 words had been hard to get on the page, it was like pulling teeth, and it showed. The new story intro works much better and it flowed so that I could keep moving instead of look at my blinking cursor. I got over 2000 words written and would have been ready for more if dinner-time hadn’t arrived. AND I figured out character names.

See? I can see a glass as half full! Go me.

I don’t know if I’ll hit or surpass my 10k goal at this point, but I’m writing and I’m getting an important story done. That’s good enough for me.

Here’s where I’m at just past the mid-point of Camp:

2920 / 10000 words. 29% done!

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