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[semperfiona]

I'm feeling vaguely lazy and underachieving. Lots of my friends are doing NaNoWriMo, and I'm not. But I've thought and thought about it, and I don't feel that I can do 1500 words a day for a month, what with single parenting and working like crazy. If I tried to write only on the days Rosa is not staying with me, that pretty much doubles the daily quota.

::sigh:: I'll try for next year perhaps.

But why should this bother me so much?

I have one big document here on this computer. I just looked at the statistics, and it's 66 pages, 31969 words according to M$Word. Total editing time 1378 minutes = 22 hours. That's not so much...hm. I dunno. I still don't think I want to give myself the deadline.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm thinking . . . keep the house from becoming septic, get school work done, find a part time job, get healthy . . . and do this? I'm pondering it, but I wouldn't hold myself too tightly to the deadline.

[spong.livejournal.com]

Hi nice journal you have.............

me, neither...

[(Anonymous)]

I'd love to write a novel, but I don't feel like I have a story to tell.

So I will spend the month catching up on my game writing, because when I have a GM as a co-writer, I can write their stories pretty well...

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

If you're not up to it, don't.

If you are up to it, do.

Don't feel guilty for making the right decision for you.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

FWIW I'm not doing NaNoWriMo either - I decided that the deadline really wasn't going to motivate me much, and that I had other projects I wanted to get done anyway. I'm sure I could churn out 50k words if I tried, but I don't see any point in doing so.

[neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com]

I'm participating, but I don't think I'm even going to aim to get done. Well, I am, but I'm not going to fret about it if I don't.

I think perhaps it bothers you for the same reason a lot of stuff bothers me - because I have this crazy (*grin*) notion that what I do/produce dictates who I am, and if I don't produce, then I'm not worth anything at all.

[semperfiona]

I think perhaps it bothers you for the same reason a lot of stuff bothers me

Well, yeah, we did establish we have quite a lot of things in common, and I don't think that has changed. :-) Yes, you're probably right. :-/

[(Anonymous)]

If you're just interested in _writing_ a novel, the deadline shouldn't matter much. If you're actually interested in _selling_ a novel, then you might want to wait a few months for the slush-piles to shrink; this event will probably fill them with execrable material.