NaNoNoMore
I have to admit now that I will not be a NaNoWriMo winner this year. Again. I hate admitting that, both because I really did want to do it, and because I was quite vocal about NaNoWriMo on Twitter.
Actually, I admitted to myself a couple of weeks ago that it just wasn’t happening. It’s been a weird month, and the weirdness started in October. My grandfather passed away in mid-October, and I went to California for the funeral. I knew this was coming, but it still pretty well rocked my existence (and still does).
And in turn, that’s made my normal state of medicated clinical depression harder to handle. Then we’ve got the usual family financial stresses, and the bike break-downs, and other things that my befuddled brain is not remembering right now. For the past couple of weeks, it’s really just come down to putting my family and my own health and stress level first.
On the other hand, I really do like what I’ve written so far, and would like to continue adding to it. So maybe I’ll declare a personal novel writing month at some point and finish it off.
In the meantime, I’ve got to focus on things that are a higher priority.
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November 26th, 2008
At the librarian conference I went to recently, one of the presenters advocated for not feeling tied to calendar dates (she said something like, “If you tell your students it’s Teen Read Week this week, they’re not going to complain that you missed it and it was really last week”), but to plan events/activities for when they work for you. So yes, you should have your own novel writing month in July or whenever is best for you.
Laurie’s last blog post..What the monkey dragged in
November 26th, 2008
You can do the novel in thirty days during any month. It’s fun to do it in November when so many others are doing it but it is not crucial. November is a packed month for many people.
I think you are right in putting family first, especially because of the age of your children. Were they a few years older, they could be enlisted to help you create writing time. That time will come. They grow older even when we don’t want them to.
Pick another month and do it then!
Corina’s last blog post..Signs of Fall
November 26th, 2008
And at some point I’ll share the link to Candy Havens’ online yahoo group, where she regularly encourages people to write a novel in TWO WEEKS. The girl’s a maniac! But she’s got five novels out, I think it is, so she must know something.
If I was as busy and involved as you are at normal life, I would never have even considered doing it, much less completed — I think it’s like quitting smoking, kwim? You just try, and keep trying, and one of these days you do it.
thelittlefluffycat’s last blog post..Oh MY. . .
November 26th, 2008
Catching up on feeds. Wow, I’m sorry. Not that you haven’t finished a novel or that you have to stop- but that you feel so rocked by it. I’m sorry. You had the courage to try- that’s more than 99.9% of us. Me included.
John Metta’s last blog post..Me? A Greek God? Wow!
November 26th, 2008
That’s really a lot of stuff going on in your life.
NaNoWriMo should be a fun challenge, not a grim challenge. You have to trust your inner voice that knows when it’s time to slow down and regroup.
Jackie’s last blog post..Give Me A Fucking Break