Doubts

Posted on 10 November 2004 @ 08:35 in Writing

Over in NaNoWriMo Land, Week Two of the challenge is described thus:


Week Two is when you’ll likely begin having some second thoughts about your participation in NaNoWriMo. It’s the point when the effects of sleep-deprivation, mind-wearying creative output, and a shortage of leisure time will combine to create the infamous Week Two Wall.

You’ll know you’ve hit the Wall when you start thinking that the whole endeavor is futile. When you start worrying that you don’t have the time or imagination to pull it off, and you come to see your story as an unmitigated disaster that should be put out of its misery before the thing gets old enough to remember where you live.

I’m beginning to feel a little like that.

Words wise, I’m ahead, so there’s no worry. But there is a difference between quantity and quality. I’m afraid I have none of the latter. It’s all about words right now.

Question is – can the quantity be shaped into quality later?

Hope I get out of this week 2 blues soon.