So, just four days and a couple of hours until NaNoWriMo 2011 starts. And, as is my custom, I've recently begun my stressing and obsessing over whether I'll win again this year
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I hope you feel better in time for NaNo! I think I'm going to try, sort of, but life at our house has been painfully hectic and I don't know how much writing time I may get. (Plus my muse has been broken for a while now)
Oh, I SINCERELY hope that I'm better in time for NaNo, too. I enjoy a day off as much as the next guy, but this really sucks. (Yeah, I'm home, and I called the doctor, but my doctor is out today, and none of the other doctors are available... probably the most unhelpful appt person I've ever talked to. I'm going to go to an Urgent Care or Minute Clinic place this morning.)
Sometimes a muse just needs a good kick in the pants to get working again, and sometimes that kick is trying NaNoWriMo again. I hope you will give it a shot, but not be too stressed out by it!
*hugs (from a distance so you won't catch this crap)*
I didn't known NaNoWriMo was a contest - or do you mean, can you win as in completing the month? Do you *have* to publish what you've written? I suppose I could go somewhere and look up the rules, couldn't I.
I like to refer to it as "a contest with myself". You're not really beating other people, you're beating your own case of writer's block/internal editor.
And no, you don't have to necessarily publish what you write, most people don't. But the first year I took part (2006), NaNoWriMo teamed up with the print on demand publisher Lulu.com to give each NaNo "winner" a bound copy of their own novel. I got that, and when I showed it to family and friends, I was stunned to discover that people wanted to be able to buy a copy of it. So they did, and then asked what happened next in the story, so I've just continued to publish all my novels through Lulu. But what you do with your novel is entirely up to you! :-)
I'm sorry to hear you're still sick. That cold sounds distressingly like what my sister and my officemate have. See if you can convince the doc to skip the Z-pak and go to the next level. Hang in there, and I hope you get feeling better soon. As for NaNo - I know you'll rock it as usual!
Shoot, on skipping the Z-pak, I wish I'd gotten this reply before I went to the Urgent Care. (My doctor is out and all the other doctors in the practice were booked up, I could've gotten in if I'd fought with her, but... And I went to a Minute Clinic, but they can't do anything for me 'cause of my medications -- they won't treat anybody who's immunesuppressed.)
On other other hand, there's not a lot they can give me, since I'm allergic to Penicillins and Sulfas, so I'll just hope that Z-pak does it.
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Sometimes a muse just needs a good kick in the pants to get working again, and sometimes that kick is trying NaNoWriMo again. I hope you will give it a shot, but not be too stressed out by it!
*hugs (from a distance so you won't catch this crap)*
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And no, you don't have to necessarily publish what you write, most people don't. But the first year I took part (2006), NaNoWriMo teamed up with the print on demand publisher Lulu.com to give each NaNo "winner" a bound copy of their own novel. I got that, and when I showed it to family and friends, I was stunned to discover that people wanted to be able to buy a copy of it. So they did, and then asked what happened next in the story, so I've just continued to publish all my novels through Lulu. But what you do with your novel is entirely up to you! :-)
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As for NaNo - I know you'll rock it as usual!
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On other other hand, there's not a lot they can give me, since I'm allergic to Penicillins and Sulfas, so I'll just hope that Z-pak does it.
Thanks, hon! *HUGS*
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Say "Hi" to the kitties for me. Bonnie is here using the mouse as a headrest. lol
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