The NaNo journey - how to keep going

Yesterday I had more holes in my #nano novel #plot than my husband's favorite t-shirt. As a #pantser, I've found this to be a common problem but #nanowrimo exacerbates it because it imposes such a punishing timeline on top of the 'take what comes', 'discover the story by writing it' approach of #pantsering.

While sleeping on it helps to sort out a lot of plotting issues, in this case I had to sort out the plot drivers. In my view, there are actually two of these: what drives the plot action, and more importantly, what drives you, the writer, to ... well ... write. The second is the more important. What drives you to write anything is passion for a story that is screaming to be born, or tossing odd gems into your line of vision, or ambushing you in traffic with 'what if's?'. If there is nothing driving you the writer to write, then quite quickly, there is nothing driving the action of the plot and it won't be fixable.

I've never suffered from writer's block, but I've had lots of cases of plot holes, some big enough to drown horses in like the good old days, but the deepest plot hole can be fixed if you are driven to do it.