lj-mood: thrilled

Over the last couple of days, working on my NaNoWriMo project felt like work. So much like work, in fact, that I’m thousands of words behind on the easiest possible production schedule.

So tonight, instead of pounding out more words that feel like work, I dug into my store of old, abandoned and never started projects. And found one of the first novel ideas I’ve ever had, including plot notes, a few characters, and even a three-part prologue. Including a title: The sound of breaking glass.

So I took my laptop to the living to work on the notes in the commercial breaks of "There’s something about Mary", to see if I could work the idea into a viable novel, and to estimate whether I could make up for lost time and do a completely different project.

And suddenly I found myself falling in love with the characters, and imagining story lines and plot hooks, and before I knew it I was writing a scene, and then another one, and another one. And the excitement of writing flowed into my arms and my stomach, and instead of forcing myself to continue I had to force myself to take a break.

So I guess I am indeed switching projects more than a week into NaNoWriMo, from a novel that was hard to write to one that is hard not to write, though I’m pretty sure it has no commercial potential whatsoever. What publisher will want to buy a werewolf novel in this day and age?

But to hell with that. This is the story I’ve been wanting to write for almost a decade. It’s bloody well time I did.