So Far So Good

It's almost the end of the second day of the new project. So far I've written 4,000 words, and am likely to hit 5,000 before the night is over. That would make 10% of the NaNoWriMo goal. I'm writing it like I would do an assemblage, starting out with the central notion that the most important part of creativity is actually producing something, regardless of refinement. The refinement can come later, and it's a process which gets better with practice. It's hard to refine nothing, however.

The novel is now showing those eerie signs of interconnectivity that build up in my assemblages as I work on them. The various sections start to tie themselves together in ways I cannot imagine when I begin to write them. The serendipitous moments of recognition of the relationship of one section to another is like witnessing magic. It keeps me going, in anticipation of what might happen next.