Day 3: Brain Trust

My poor little brain will start emitting steam at any moment. First I got a poor night’s sleep and then I needed to drop off the car for service this morning, wrecking my newly established writing schedule. So here I was, late afternoon, with zero words so far on the day and my brain in neutral.

Why neutral? I knew what I wanted to write about, but I couldn’t picture it. I couldn’t decide on an activity that fit the characters, and until I picked the activity, the characters just weren’t coming into focus. I tried napping, hoping that some rest would make me more alert, but I couldn’t sleep knowing how many words I was getting behind in my NaNoWriMo quest. So I took out the laptop and just started writing notes, anything to have words on the page. Then came the silly Google searches. “Rich people hobbies” actually came up as a search term. Who knew?

After much wandering down Internet paths, I found what I was looking for. I researched, took notes and jotted down some specific things for the chapter. Now I’m shutting down the laptop and letting the tired brain do what it does best. Daydream it’s way through.