November 14th means two weeks of literary abandonment for NaNoWriMo writers. Unfortunately, that was not my case: I only began drafting my novel three days ago, and I’m struggling to reach 4,000 words within tomorrow. There is so much stuff to do every day, from websites to university, countryside life and housework. Novel writing only gets a small amount of daily time, which means slow progress. Someone may suggest to quit the NaNo for 2010, and try again next year; ‘alas’, I’m not one of those people. I’m going to navigate the struggle sea until I reach a tiny land, and I don’t care whether that land takes me to…
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Back to this Journal
My last entry was from July, it seems. Three months of silence in the writing world. Sad enough? Maybe. Truth is that I went through several hard times and the rest of the summer was around holidays and my significant other, so you see, my writing activity has been kept dormant until ‘now’. I used the tildes here because I have not resumed working on my short stories yet; I should finish Evergreen before anything else, and then write my NaNoWriMo book right afterwards, in November. I had an idea for a plot a few weeks ago, but I should make sure it goes somewhere before I start writing for…
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Virginia and Lia and Writing
I cannot distract myself from my daily reading of Virginia Woolf‘s A Writer’s Diary – “Diario di una Scrittrice” in Italian translation published by minimum fax. I keep wondering why I haven’t started reading this book earlier, the day I bought it, because it would have helped me through my ups and downs in writing. I can see a lot of myself into V. Woolf’s daily routine, feelings and nervous breakdowns. Perhaps the ‘only’ difference (not so slight one) is that I’m not bipolar: I’m highly sensitive and I have a religious faith that helps me see the light at the end of the dark tunnel of my mental issues.…
