No Feed Hell today as I’m saving all my love for NaNoWriMo.
NaNo commenced last Sunday and by Tuesday I was ahead on word count. That lasted all the way to Wednesday! Since then I’ve been getting steadily further behind. But this is year three of NaNo for me and I’ve learned a couple of things since my first try:
- Don’t panic about being behind on word count. That’s what Thanksgiving vacation is for. Your employer thinks you are doing your duty at the family hearth when in fact you are holing up in your writing nest, ignoring them all.
- Everyone writes shitty first drafts. Get over it.
- Do not go to the NaNo site forum for encouragement/comiseration. That place is a world-class time suck. Hey, what did I just say? Nice. You can kiss three hours and 1,000 words goodbye.
Pearls of wisdom, yes?
And while I’m here, since who knows when I will return, I’d like to point out that once again, Seattle is kicking global NaNoWriMo ass:
By the way, dunno what broke the images on the last few posts. I fixed them but no promises, since I’m running an old version of WordPress and haven’t gotten around to upgrading.
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