The Half Time Plan
I don’t watch football. I’ve seen one full game once and a few Super Bowl kick offs, and that is it. I know very little about the sport and most of what I do know comes from sports movies like Remember the Titans or Facing the Giants.
But what I have learned is that half time is key. If you’ve ever seen one of these underdog to victor sports movies (my favourite as a kid was the first Mighty Ducks not football but fun) the “loser” team makes it to the big championship and does horrible in the first half. At half time, while the school band does their thing, the coach is in the locker room giving a very inspiring speech and everything changes (plus someone is hurt and the team is "doing it for him").
Sometimes there is a brilliant new play that relies on the teams unique qualities. The second half is nail biting, edge of your seat action, waiting to see how the team will win (Spoiler: Coach Carter is the only exception I’ve seen to this model).
Today is the NaNoWriMo half time. The band is on the field playing classic video game themes and I’m in the locker room feeling defeated.
The word count goals are killing me. I should be at 25,000 and I'm not. I’m down 14,000 words. But I will not be overcome. I will fight back. NaNo Victory is still a possibility. "I've worked to hard to give up now!" It might mean hours spent at coffee shops, new crazy plot twists, having my main character break out in to song causing me to include pages of lyrics, and buckets of coffee and other caffeine enriched drinks. I don’t even like coffee –but I’ll take one for the team.
If you have any encouraging advice on how write 50,000 words before 11:59pm November 30 are possible please leave a comment. This is where I’m at right now:
Word Count: 11,892
But what I have learned is that half time is key. If you’ve ever seen one of these underdog to victor sports movies (my favourite as a kid was the first Mighty Ducks not football but fun) the “loser” team makes it to the big championship and does horrible in the first half. At half time, while the school band does their thing, the coach is in the locker room giving a very inspiring speech and everything changes (plus someone is hurt and the team is "doing it for him").
Sometimes there is a brilliant new play that relies on the teams unique qualities. The second half is nail biting, edge of your seat action, waiting to see how the team will win (Spoiler: Coach Carter is the only exception I’ve seen to this model).
Today is the NaNoWriMo half time. The band is on the field playing classic video game themes and I’m in the locker room feeling defeated.
The word count goals are killing me. I should be at 25,000 and I'm not. I’m down 14,000 words. But I will not be overcome. I will fight back. NaNo Victory is still a possibility. "I've worked to hard to give up now!" It might mean hours spent at coffee shops, new crazy plot twists, having my main character break out in to song causing me to include pages of lyrics, and buckets of coffee and other caffeine enriched drinks. I don’t even like coffee –but I’ll take one for the team.
If you have any encouraging advice on how write 50,000 words before 11:59pm November 30 are possible please leave a comment. This is where I’m at right now:
Word Count: 11,892
Comments
there that is my pep talk for you.
Jess -sorry to hear to the struggle. There is next year.
Glo -How goes the writing?
and i had an evil test last week So this week my goal is simply to write about 100 words a night. just to keep the thing going and then attack it hard during thanksgiving break.