As anybody who’s even considered doing Nanowrimo can tell you, 50,000 is pretty daunting. Like so many things in life, however, it helps to just concentrate on small chunks. One word at a time, one sentence at a time, one paragraph at a time, etc. Right now I’m keeping up by rewarding myself with a Starburst every 100 or so words. It’s like they say: the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. My elephant just happens to be made out of candy.
Here’s a passage from today:
It was hard enough for Tom to admit that he had done these things, committed these terrible wrongs. To ask him to think more deeply…it was like telling someone that was being eaten by a shark to save themselves by diving right into the monster’s gullet.
Eileen Maksym studied philosophy at Yale and theology at Boston College, and now uses both to write science fiction. Currently she is an academic nomad, following her astrophysicist husband around the world, two kids in tow. When not writing or kid wrangling, Eileen is a hopeless fangirl. She can be found on Twitter (@eileenmaksym) squeeing over her favorite shows, most of which involve famous detectives, dashing time travelers, and creatures that are never, ever referred to as zombies.
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