NanoWriMo Day 3

I faced the first barrier in writing today. Finshed a scene this morning, and then I djust didn't know where to go next. As we had a day visiting people, showing off Sam to friends, I was able to hide from this block most of the day. But when I sat down to write late on, there was much prevaricating before any words appeared. In the spirit of NaNoWriMo, I had to force myself to accept a rather lame introduction to a scene to allow me to get the main parts of the scene down on paper (well PC type paper). Once I had done this, the rest just started to flow out.

However, I didn't finish the scene. I've also realsed that closing off scenes in neat chunks creates a sense of closure each night, which makes starting again the next day all the more difficult. In future, I am going to leave a scene hanging overnight, so that I know what I'm going to start writing about in the morning. Hopefully this will lead to the next scene appearing in my head while I'm finishing the previous one. I suspect I've read about this trick in some book on writing - it may even have been in "No Plot, No Problem".

So today was a rather short 871 words, but I'm still at 6441 words in total and so well ahead of target.