Sweet Maria's Revenge

I have been working on this Nano Novel for about two months now, and just gotten to the 50 thousand word threshold. But I am not nearly as close to finished with it as I thought I would be. I don't even have an ending yet. Actually I do, but none of it is written, and the text that supports is isn't written. This is for all you novellers out there.

So one figures, "I can fill a hundred and fifty pages with nothing in particular in order to recieve the arbitrary title of nano-winner." But then all my characters started chattering at me, and they're all like, "man I don't think I would do that,' or 'why won't you make me go do this?' or 'that character's really bugging me and I'd really like to give him a piece of my gosh darn mind.' Amid this clatter I was able to scrawl the few bits of dialogue floating through my head that made considerable sense. But when Maria started drinking all my coffee, and Jamie left a mess of P B and J all over my counter and didn't clean it up, I thought I had to put my foot down. I tried, but the kids just don't listen, you know? Next thing you know they're leaving the door open in mid December, staying up and singing at all hours of the night, and inviting random people in the coffee shop over to come and sit with us.

To top all that off, after everything, they start telling me, 'Tim, you really need to loosen up. Try to understand yourself a little better. You don't always have to be accomplishing something great. Learn to be happy with who you are, where you are.' Sound like good advice? Well it might, excepting for the fact that it's coming from a fictitious character who can't learn to put the cap back on the friggin jelly when she's done with it. The audacity of it all, I tell you! Her, giving me advice?

But in their defense, I should add that they have come a long way since I first met them. They have changed and grown as people so much ... I know, Neal, I'll write you some more lines ... Honestly, though, I can say I'm proud of them.

Fellow novellers, there is hope. By the way, if you liked Nanowrimo, check out this site: http://www.3daynovel.com ... Yowza - Caffeine.