Nov 29 2009
Dredging for Inspiration
I keep thinking maybe if I use spring plungers I can suck the ideas out of my brain and redeposit them on paper. I can’t come up with words for that but I can write blog posts. I could cut and paste all of those into my NaNo document, but that’s cheating just as surely as writing “Here, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty —” would be to fill a few pages.
There are lots of cheats on the NaNo forum for ways to pad word count. Ones I remember and have used are just to describe everything in infinite detail, it makes me feel like Tolkein. However, others I’ve seen and not used are to have your cast members start singing “100 Bottles of Beer on the wall” or have them have to explain things over and over again to a character with amnesia, or have someone with a really thick accent who several people can’t understand them and either keeps having to repeat himself or has to keep being translated.
I’ve just broken 24K words, and am stuck, which annoys me because I have less than a thousand to go and I meet my personalized goal. I took a break just now to clean up the kitchen a little hoping that things would come to me a little more, but so far they haven’t so I’m going through and looking at different blogs so I’ll see if something will come to me while I’m writing other things.
I hope those of you out there still working on NaNo aren’t experiencing this sort of writer’s block, and I have to give a shout out to Dethas, Hero and Jackdaw on my NaNo buddy list who have already won! Congratulations!
