NaNoFailMo?
I think I'm done with WriMo. It's really discouraging. But I feel better about it this year; I gave NaNo an honest effort, but this weekend I realized that I was getting my priorities out of whack. I was putting NaNo in front of everything else, even in front of time with God and with Evan, and I suffered for it as a consequence. That's something to NOT do next year.
This isn't to say I'm not going to write more on my story. I still may put an effort into reaching at least 25 or 30k, but I think 50k is out of reach, particularly since I'm going to be gone this weekend as well, and one of my brothers is coming home for Thanksgiving.
This year was a definite learning experience as well. Writing an outline is a VERY GOOD THING. Because while I still had an outline to roughly go by, I still knew where I was going and still had motivation. But once I ran out of outline at about 20k (since I didn't complete it from beginning to end), everything fell apart and my muse vanished. Next year I'm definitely going to prepare a longer outline so I won't completely die in the middle of Week 2.
I still really want the NaNoWriMo shirt they have this year, even though I told myself I'd only buy it if and when I won... But yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen. x) Maybe I'll wait to see if they have a sale at the end of the month.
This isn't to say I'm not going to write more on my story. I still may put an effort into reaching at least 25 or 30k, but I think 50k is out of reach, particularly since I'm going to be gone this weekend as well, and one of my brothers is coming home for Thanksgiving.
This year was a definite learning experience as well. Writing an outline is a VERY GOOD THING. Because while I still had an outline to roughly go by, I still knew where I was going and still had motivation. But once I ran out of outline at about 20k (since I didn't complete it from beginning to end), everything fell apart and my muse vanished. Next year I'm definitely going to prepare a longer outline so I won't completely die in the middle of Week 2.
I still really want the NaNoWriMo shirt they have this year, even though I told myself I'd only buy it if and when I won... But yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen. x) Maybe I'll wait to see if they have a sale at the end of the month.