Camp Nano 2014 - April - Day 16
Sorry for the delay in updating this, party people.
We’re halfway through the month and I’m not halfway through the word count. Le gasp, commence the sobbing. I don’t know how this could happen. Again. It was really going well through the whole of week one. I didn’t write ahead - as I do that usually and it breaks my neck sometimes - but stayed on time and I was proud of that. Towards the middle of week two, though, I let things slide. At first, I was only a little behind. At day nine it was more or less two hundred words. And it’s not like I was lazy - I just use the time I had and started to write some fanfiction drabbles and shit. (Because It’s quite obviously clever to start another thing during camp-time.)
Then I didn’t write on day ten or eleven. I thought - no biggie, I can marathon it all away on day twelve, the writing Saturday. And it will be good for my motivation through the whole month if I have another project to run to when I hit writer’s block. So instead I dabbled in fanfiction reading and writing and promised myself to catch up on camp stuff later. Except I didn’t. Instead I learned how to change the wheels on a car. I took a walk. I watched a series. I did some re-decorating and some sports. And when I sat down in front of my laptop as soon as it got dark outside I had arms that felt almost torn out and I decided - I’ll just do a bit of writing - three thousand words, not even enough for two lazy days - and I’ll properly catch up tomorrow. I can to five thousand words on a day, no biggie. And guess what? Boo fucking hoo. I didn’t write on Saturday either, because, apparently, I can afford that. What, you say I can’t? Damn right I can’t. But I was crazed like a small kid about the fact that university started again on Monday.
Naturally, I didn’t write on Monday or Tuesday, because I was busy being back to a regular schedule and to people who all wanted to “meet up for a coffee” and “talk about what I missed in your life”. Yeah. You didn’t miss anything! What do you expect to have happened? Me doing something surprising or cool for once? Like, I don’t know, finishing a novel? Nah. But that didn’t keep me from keeping myself from writing in talking about it anyway.
So. Now we have day 16. I have no idea where week two went. I’m in a half-assed denial that we aren’t in week three already. And I am over ten thousand words behind the quota I should have by now. I’ve written just above 2k today - so I’m at 19k - and I have no idea when exactly I shall manage to catch up. Especially if the coming week will be anything like this one. Especially with guests on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Especially with my sister coming back from her trip and expecting me to make room for her in my schedule (which I usually do with pleasure but… *whines* Camp Nano!)
That being said, I finished writing Chapter V still on time, so I should see to it that I get that one posted here tomorrow. Not that anyone’s reading it but… if I go by that reasoning, I shouldn’t bother to write anything here at all, right?
Right.
So - see y’all, folks!
We’re halfway through the month and I’m not halfway through the word count. Le gasp, commence the sobbing. I don’t know how this could happen. Again. It was really going well through the whole of week one. I didn’t write ahead - as I do that usually and it breaks my neck sometimes - but stayed on time and I was proud of that. Towards the middle of week two, though, I let things slide. At first, I was only a little behind. At day nine it was more or less two hundred words. And it’s not like I was lazy - I just use the time I had and started to write some fanfiction drabbles and shit. (Because It’s quite obviously clever to start another thing during camp-time.)
Then I didn’t write on day ten or eleven. I thought - no biggie, I can marathon it all away on day twelve, the writing Saturday. And it will be good for my motivation through the whole month if I have another project to run to when I hit writer’s block. So instead I dabbled in fanfiction reading and writing and promised myself to catch up on camp stuff later. Except I didn’t. Instead I learned how to change the wheels on a car. I took a walk. I watched a series. I did some re-decorating and some sports. And when I sat down in front of my laptop as soon as it got dark outside I had arms that felt almost torn out and I decided - I’ll just do a bit of writing - three thousand words, not even enough for two lazy days - and I’ll properly catch up tomorrow. I can to five thousand words on a day, no biggie. And guess what? Boo fucking hoo. I didn’t write on Saturday either, because, apparently, I can afford that. What, you say I can’t? Damn right I can’t. But I was crazed like a small kid about the fact that university started again on Monday.
Naturally, I didn’t write on Monday or Tuesday, because I was busy being back to a regular schedule and to people who all wanted to “meet up for a coffee” and “talk about what I missed in your life”. Yeah. You didn’t miss anything! What do you expect to have happened? Me doing something surprising or cool for once? Like, I don’t know, finishing a novel? Nah. But that didn’t keep me from keeping myself from writing in talking about it anyway.
So. Now we have day 16. I have no idea where week two went. I’m in a half-assed denial that we aren’t in week three already. And I am over ten thousand words behind the quota I should have by now. I’ve written just above 2k today - so I’m at 19k - and I have no idea when exactly I shall manage to catch up. Especially if the coming week will be anything like this one. Especially with guests on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Especially with my sister coming back from her trip and expecting me to make room for her in my schedule (which I usually do with pleasure but… *whines* Camp Nano!)
That being said, I finished writing Chapter V still on time, so I should see to it that I get that one posted here tomorrow. Not that anyone’s reading it but… if I go by that reasoning, I shouldn’t bother to write anything here at all, right?
Right.
So - see y’all, folks!