It's Day 5 into NaNoWriMo, and I'm already appallingly behind. I could blame my job and MS for making me be responsible and not pull the massive all night writing sessions that got me through my first NaNo, but to be honest; all the mental energy in the world couldn't help me right now...
The issue that I'm having has more to do with the fact that I have an absolutely gorgeous plot sitting right in front of me, and I can't talk to it. Seriously, the moment I sit down at my computer and open up my document, suddenly all of the witty and clever prose I was going to write flies out of my head, leaving me a blithering idiot fumbling around for just the right words.
Maybe it's the fear of the unknown. My first novel and I hit it off right off the bat, and even though we had our ups and downs on more than one occasion, we always managed to find a way to talk to one another. This book feels a lot more aloof, almost intimidating. The chemistry is there, we could have a really good relationship, but we just can't seem to get past the planning stage.
Honestly, how hard is it to figure out what we're going to do on our first real date? I have a number of settings in mind, and some characters to come along, but nothing I throw out seems to meet with its approval.
Somehow I have to figure out what this novel wants, but the problem is: Novels rarely tell you what direction they want to go in, but they reserve the right to be pissed off when you don't take them there.
