Motivation. Falling. Motivation. Rising. [Day 3]

Project Threesome: 2 756 words (me), 9 659 words (all).
Project Hero: 8 646 words.

I have figured out that I either need to be not writing at all or constantly writing. This isn't a recent revelation, mind you; I've known for quite some time. I thought, though, that with this NaNo endeavour, I wouldn't get stuck at all. I mean, we're aiming for 100,000 words. Who gets stuck in the first 10,000?

Well, when it's not my turn to write, it's quite understandable that I'm stuck. -- Oop, 'scuse me, gotta capture a fly. Oh, now there's two of them. -- Okay, I'm back. I really hate flies buzzing in my room. Can't think straight when they are. Anyway. It's not my turn to write right now, and it hasn't been since the first day. I have to wait for Mitz (Sin) to speak up some more and really solidify himself as a character, before Snooze (me) can get any more screen time. Still, I'm sitting on two and a half thousand words. That covers me so far, I think.

So since I can't work on the joint-effort NaNo right now, I pulled out a project I've been playing at the last couple of weeks and really got started on it. I think I'm going to be doing two NaNo projects. Ambitious for a first-timer, aren't I.

Anyway, this new one, it's nowhere near as serious as the other. I dropped my friends in a fantasy setting with traditional fantasy roles and I'm playing with them to see how they react. It's actually really easy to set them into roles. I was surprised. And I keep giving my friends the pages to read and they seem excited about it. I mean, I'm totally insecure, so I keep thinking they could be faking it, but on the outside it seems as if they like it. Which is great. One of my friends, the main character, really, said he wants to know what happens next. That's like the greatest compliment you can give a writer.

So Day 3 brings a second project. I think I'll call the joint-effort Project Threesome and my solo effort Project Hero. Remember that.

Between the two projects my motivation and morale is fluctuating. When I woke up this morning I didn't feel like writing at all. I even tweeted about how I thought it wasn't supposed to get this bad until Week Two.

I fear I ain't seen nothin' yet.