yes. sometimes some brain dumping is needed ... I actually started turning the computer screen off, to prevent me from trying to edit as I typed - I wrote sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much faster, and it meant that the flow kicked in within a paragraph or three, and rather than having one page of brilliance at the end of a session, I'd have a few lines of crap, a few paragraphs of fluff, and then 5 - 10 pages of real narrative, action, character development, etc ...

and let's face it - the hard part is getting it out.

the time consuming part is the editing, the research, the checking, the fixing of continuity errors, etc - but that is all very very doable, once the words are in the pages, and once we've figured out what the story actually is

that's what I find, at least

the thing that I will actually be struggling with this year is that I haven't actually enjoyed writing since DS's birth ... I just lost all enjoyment from most of my hobbies, so I am really, really hoping that I will be able to do Nanowrimo this year and just get back into loving writing ...

I know it's a big ask and it's awfully simplistic, but I hope with all the writing vibes and creative juices flowing from everyone around me, that the feelings and desire will just snap back into place.

Does that sound ridiculous?