Camp NaNoWriMo Diaries: Day Five – On Which Nothing Was Written

Dear Diary,

Yesterday was Day Five of Camp.

And I wrote NOTHING.  Not a single word.  Well, okay, so I wrote a diary entry, but we’ll not count that.

No progress was made on the novel, at least. I feel slightly guilty, since I left the protagonists in a rather precarious, terribly emotional state.

But that’s probably better.  Easier place to pick up where I left off if it’s right in the thick of things. Anyway, I want Pavel to stew for a bit, really think about how he feels about this new development.

So yesterday I was lazy. If you count taking care of the house and the kid being lazy, that is. I had some drinks, another family dinner before Mom and Stepdad left on vacation/work trip to Hawaii, then put the kid to bed early and played some videogames.

I’ve actually found the gaming to be very conducive to getting the story to flow, as well.

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Similar to watching tv and movies for inspiration, or reading similar books for inspiration, the gaming seems to loosen up the creative juices in a different, but no less effective way.  In fact it seems to be more effective than the tv/movies/books route.  Perhaps because gaming is a bit more interactive? You are hands-on, essentially, making choices and participating in the story.

Well, that’s my theory.

So that’s what I did for Day Five of Camp.  And then I decided to participate in the Weta Nichols Writing Contest put on by the Ozark Romance Authors group of Springfield, MO. Not only because they are a more local group, but because they accept chapters from unfinished novels, and if you make it to the final round you get read by editors/agents from small presses/agencies which represent/accept genre mash-up stories like mine!

And here I thought I’d never find a possible home for it …

<3 JRF