There’s No Place Like NaNoWriMo
Word Count: 34,647 of 50,000
Not bad for the sixth day of writing. Hah. I’m sorry. I know we got a head start, but it’s working! The drive I was hoping to get from NaNoWriMo has delivered. Even Rhiannon is getting excited about what’s coming out. So much better than planned. Sometimes all it takes is a force to get you through.
Motivational Forces
There are times–for every writer–when coffee, pixie sticks, and other biological forms of motivation just don’t cut it. You may be sitting in front of your keyboard all day intending to write, but the distractions are too high. You can’t bring yourself to unplug the internet (you mean disconnect from the world? Scary!), or turn off the cell phone. How do you focus yourself? You have to write, but you can’t.
Let’s talk magical forces. There are as many different kinds of magical forces as you can think of, and the magical force of motivation is a very powerful one. With motivation, any task–even dreaded ones–take on a life, are quickly completed. To seek and use a motivational force is to add power to whatever you intend to do. First, you have to know where to locate it.
In the pit of your stomach, that place that hurts when you feel hungry, that is where motivational forces live. Go there in your mind. Feel around. Whenever you get excited about something, it usually comes from here.
It has been said there is a flame inside all of us. I believe this is where that flame resides. Whenever the distractions around me are getting to be too much, I focus on this place. I feed the fire in a minute’s meditation.
When I feed this fire, it grows, and my fingers find their way through the story–blasting into scenes unthought of. These are times when it’s just you and your story. It’s almost as if you are watching it in action. I find I write the best stuff when I have to do these meditations. I’ve been doing them daily for NaNoWriMo.
Strike a flame with me! Add inspiration to your story. Tell me, what do you do to inspire yourself when you’re not feelin’ it?
6 November 2009 12:08 PM 
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