NaNo
NaNoWriMo starts on Sunday. 50,000 words in November.
I am seventhe on the NaNo website, btw, so feel free to friend me if you want cheering, but I'm not really doing official NaNo this year.
Why not? How to put this simply. I'm losing 10/30 days in November for my brother's wedding, reception, and my personal vacation in-between the two. And that's the most optimistic estimate - not taking into account packing/preparing for said trip, recovery time from said trip, the final I have right after said trip, or anything involving Thanksgiving. Since the more realistic estimate leaves me about 50% of November to work with, I'll be frank: NaNo is not happening for me this year.
I'm going to participate in the way I usually do, since Novembers are busy months for my personal life - writing what I can, inputting it into the website, and cheering on my friends who have a much better chance of making 50K.
I'll be using the NaNo fervor to spur myself on into writing whatever words I can, because I'm still close enough to being on-track with
getyourwordsout that I can make 200K by the end of this year as long as I stay on track. So that's my goal! Stay on track, self.
It's sad because there are so many things I want to write right now! My brains are frazzled and fried from le wedding, and from school, and from work, which makes even basic sub-dire life feel frazzling and frying. And yet the ideas keep coming! And I get excited about them! But then I get more frazzled! CLEARLY I AM A PROFESSIONAL.
And then I post about writing and being frazzled rather than doing anything productive. DON'T MIND ME.
I am seventhe on the NaNo website, btw, so feel free to friend me if you want cheering, but I'm not really doing official NaNo this year.
Why not? How to put this simply. I'm losing 10/30 days in November for my brother's wedding, reception, and my personal vacation in-between the two. And that's the most optimistic estimate - not taking into account packing/preparing for said trip, recovery time from said trip, the final I have right after said trip, or anything involving Thanksgiving. Since the more realistic estimate leaves me about 50% of November to work with, I'll be frank: NaNo is not happening for me this year.
I'm going to participate in the way I usually do, since Novembers are busy months for my personal life - writing what I can, inputting it into the website, and cheering on my friends who have a much better chance of making 50K.
I'll be using the NaNo fervor to spur myself on into writing whatever words I can, because I'm still close enough to being on-track with
getyourwordsout that I can make 200K by the end of this year as long as I stay on track. So that's my goal! Stay on track, self.
It's sad because there are so many things I want to write right now! My brains are frazzled and fried from le wedding, and from school, and from work, which makes even basic sub-dire life feel frazzling and frying. And yet the ideas keep coming! And I get excited about them! But then I get more frazzled! CLEARLY I AM A PROFESSIONAL.
And then I post about writing and being frazzled rather than doing anything productive. DON'T MIND ME.