March-O-Wrimo Update

I come to with my white flag waving and admitting defeat. I planned on devoting the month of March to “March-O-Wrimo” or 31 Days of Writing and I failed miserably. Which is okay, I’m not made or disappointed in myself. I simply learned a lot!

When I did NaNoWriMo in November, I had months to prep for it. I began prepping in August and got ahead of a lot of work so I could write every day. This time, I realized in the last week of February I was behind on my writing goals for 2022 and wanted to push myself. Now, I do truly believe that pushing ourselves is important but I think I didn’t give myself enough prep time in the midst of March stress.

My goal for the month was finish my second draft of my solo project (Amber and I are done with draft 1 of our co-written book and giving it space to breath before jumping into Draft 2). But something has been working in my solo project since I started and when I was free writing about it, something finally clicked. I quickly wrote out the synopsis, or what I’d want to see on the back of the book, and it all made sense to me.

But then I hit a roadblock. Did that mean the 90,000 words I’d already written would go to waste?

I didn’t know where to go from there and found myself constantly thinking about my project and characters, seeing the scenes in my head, but unable to translate it to my document when I needed to. I think this is going to be a case for handwriting and honestly…I think I want to start over. I can’t believe that’s where this month brought me, but I think I need a fresh start knowing that I finally cracked what was missing from my story.

I think I want to try again another month but until then, I just need to get more consistent with my writing. Project L+N with Amber is so strong and I’m so excited about it. I want to feel that way about my solo project too.

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