So today I achieved my goal by reaching 1,751 words. Hurray!
I continued writing my novel-in-progress, and it is going well so far. The new section I specifically wrote today was interesting in that I probably should have done more research before writing it. To clarify, one of my characters was being taught how to throw daggers. Which is sort of awesome for her, but terrible for me, because I have no experience throwing daggers (though it’d be sort of awesome if I did).
But, I’m writing for WooWriMo and the mentality is to just type it out no matter so you don’t get stuck. So that’s what I did.
I found that I can at least pretend I know some stuff about how to throw daggers. But I also found that research wasn’t entirely necessary; I was able to write a whole section about how the character needed to loosen up in order to properly throw a dagger. I don’t know if that’s true, but judging from past experiences, it’s almost always necessary for athletes to be relaxed in order to perform well. So, today was good because I showed myself I can just write rather than spend all my time intensely preparing in order to write. Note that I just wrote “intensely” preparing. Yep, you got me, I did a little research *gasp* Yeah it was a distraction and probably a form procrastination, but even still it was an improvement for me: I spent less than 20 minutes doing research. Take it from me, that’s an improvement.
Anyway, that’s pretty much it for summing up my writing experience today. Hooray for dagger throwing! Hopefully I’ll learn how to do it someday, it’d be a wicked cool (and useless) parlor trick.
Lauren
p.s. I can’t decide if I should sign my name at the end of posts. Feels weird not to, yet clearly it’s redundant if I do, considering I’m the author of this post. Hmmm.