Wednesday, November 18, 2015

I broke 30 thousand and had an Holy Crap moment today!

First, I've been doing late nights which is why I haven't updated in a few days. Just not enough hours in the day for everything and my writing brain has decided not to turn on till about 7:30 at night... which kinda pisses me off lol. But even with that I have been hanging in there. Hopefully I keep up the momentum through this weekend when I'm spending the weekend with my best friend. Anyway, tonight while I was writing, I was in the zone so to speak. Actually my family had not interrupted me for a half hour, so I was on a roll. All of a sudden the story took off on it's own and without going into too much detail, one of my subplots took a twist. A holy crap I didn't see that coming twist! Now it you're not a writer you may ask exactly what my husband did, "You're writing it, how did you not see it coming?" But if you're a writer... you understand! When you are writing as a kind of Plotter and a kind of Pantser you know some of the story but not all. Something your characters will hijack your story and take it in directions even you can't predict, and when they do, it's basically and bluntly a "Where the hell did that come from" moment. It's one of my favorite things I have discovered as a newbie novel writer and it's made me fall in love with writing even more. So for tonight I will wish all my NaNoers Happy Plot Twists!

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