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NaNoWriMo - Day 3
Nov. 3rd, 2011 08:30 pmToday I finished Chapter 7 of Dreaming. I wrote about Sam waking up in the real world again. He's been placed in a hospital, and his wife, Kendra, signed his rights away through her Power of Attorney, so the hospital has the right to keep him until they can be sure he's not a danger to himself or others.
We meet a new character, Dr. Chevalier, who is to be Sam's psychiatrist. He is an intelligent man, and more than a match for Sam's stubbornness, rather mule-like in his determination to keep Sam here for a while, for his own good.
Sam, of course, has no idea what caused the hallucinations, but he's not about to admit to any sort of mental deficiency, even to himself. He's afraid that he really did have a nervous breakdown of some kind, but he's not about to stay in a hospital. He really wants to get out of here.
He and Kendra have an argument over it, and she leaves in tears. Sam's home and work situation are definitely going from bad to worse.
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I had a rather tiring evening and wasn't really in the mood to write at all, but I did force myself to and I'm glad I did.
Part of the reason why I found writing a bit daunting at first was because I felt like I really didn't know what it was like in a psyche ward. But I talked to a friend of mine who had spent a stint in a psyche ward at a hospital and asked a bunch of questions about what it was really like, from the smells and sounds to the procedures. It was super valuable, and I felt far more capable of tackling this part of the chapter after I talked to her.
The next chapter will continue in the hospital, so I guess I'll get started on that tomorrow.
When I first counted my words up I was at 1985 for the night. I've been giving myself a multi-tiered goal each day, which is my usual strategy for NaNoWriMo that has served me well in the past. 1667 is the absolute minimum, I-will-force-it-out-no-matter-what daily goal. But if I can, I want to hit 2000 words or exceed it each day, giving myself a cushion for days when things get hard and I really don't have time to write at all. The nice thing about the multi-tiered system is that once I hit 1667, 2000 doesn't seem that far away, so if I write towards what I absolutely have to do, I usually can go further and hit the second goal as well. But I don't have to do it, so it's less intimidating.
So I could have stopped at 1985 and achieved my minimum goal. Since I was kindof feeling low, I might have given myself a pass and not bothered to try to reach 2000. Especially since I had reached the end of a chapter, I was tempted. But 15 more words...?
So I went back and massaged a paragraph into being longer and wound up with 2020 for the night. Yay!
We meet a new character, Dr. Chevalier, who is to be Sam's psychiatrist. He is an intelligent man, and more than a match for Sam's stubbornness, rather mule-like in his determination to keep Sam here for a while, for his own good.
Sam, of course, has no idea what caused the hallucinations, but he's not about to admit to any sort of mental deficiency, even to himself. He's afraid that he really did have a nervous breakdown of some kind, but he's not about to stay in a hospital. He really wants to get out of here.
He and Kendra have an argument over it, and she leaves in tears. Sam's home and work situation are definitely going from bad to worse.
--
I had a rather tiring evening and wasn't really in the mood to write at all, but I did force myself to and I'm glad I did.
Part of the reason why I found writing a bit daunting at first was because I felt like I really didn't know what it was like in a psyche ward. But I talked to a friend of mine who had spent a stint in a psyche ward at a hospital and asked a bunch of questions about what it was really like, from the smells and sounds to the procedures. It was super valuable, and I felt far more capable of tackling this part of the chapter after I talked to her.
The next chapter will continue in the hospital, so I guess I'll get started on that tomorrow.
When I first counted my words up I was at 1985 for the night. I've been giving myself a multi-tiered goal each day, which is my usual strategy for NaNoWriMo that has served me well in the past. 1667 is the absolute minimum, I-will-force-it-out-no-matter-what daily goal. But if I can, I want to hit 2000 words or exceed it each day, giving myself a cushion for days when things get hard and I really don't have time to write at all. The nice thing about the multi-tiered system is that once I hit 1667, 2000 doesn't seem that far away, so if I write towards what I absolutely have to do, I usually can go further and hit the second goal as well. But I don't have to do it, so it's less intimidating.
So I could have stopped at 1985 and achieved my minimum goal. Since I was kindof feeling low, I might have given myself a pass and not bothered to try to reach 2000. Especially since I had reached the end of a chapter, I was tempted. But 15 more words...?
So I went back and massaged a paragraph into being longer and wound up with 2020 for the night. Yay!
