Nov. 10: Just Keep Swimming. Or Writing. Or Whatever.

Word count: 20812

Remember Dory, from Finding Nemo? That plucky little blue fish with absolutely no memory, no sense of direction, and no fear? One of the most memorable (and oft quoted) lines by her was what she said to Marlin when he started getting nervous about taking on the deep scary ocean. "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming swimming swimming!"

On the one hand, this is Dory being silly. If I remember correctly, she turned that phrase into a song that very quickly grated on Marlin's nerves.

On the other hand, though, the animated fish from a kids movie actually dispensed some very worthwhile advice: when life--be it school, work, a project, personal stuff--gets hard, or scary, or just plain ugly, the only thing left to do really is keeping swimming.

In the case of Nanowrimo, replace "swimming" with "writing" and you have basically got the feeling that encompasses the end of Week 2. I don't know about you Wrimos out there, but this has been a HARD week to get in word counts (as it often is, idiot self). You feel exhausted and a little peeved with your characters, a lot peeved with your plot (or lack thereof) and its like you have to fight every word--hell, every LETTER--that goes down on the paper.

But the words must be written, the show must go on, and so we keep on swimming...er, writing.

Next week I have 2 days off work, one of my final projects will be finished (hallelujah) and my husband will be out of town on a conference (that I am not too keen on, but at least it means I will have the evenings to myself). Hopefully things will pick up the pace then.

Until then, everyone, just keep writing, just keep writing, just keep writing, writing, writing....

~Katherine