Hello, fellow NaNo-ers!
How's the writing going? I know some of you are super motivated and have already surpassed the 50,000 word goal. Others (like me, ahem) are still flagging. I regret to say that I probably won't "win" NaNoWriMo this year. I've only got about 40,000 words and though I MIGHT be able to write 10,000 words in the next two days, I doubt it. I'm, frankly, exhausted. And my imagination is beginning to resembled a shriveled raisin. Sad? Yes it is. The story is also picking a fight with me, trying to take me a direction I don't want to go, so that's making writing more difficult. Because I feel like everything I've wrote lately is crap. (Yes, writing crap is better than not writing, but I'm just too frustrated to deal with it now.) I'm going to write some more today. I can't guarantee it will be 5,000 words or even 500, but I'll keep writing until Dec. 1. Then I'm going to take a well-deserved break.
Normally, the daunting idea that I might not reach a goal would have my stomach in knots. I'm a perfectionist and I'm ambitious. I like to succeed. I like to reach my goals. Normally, I would be frantically pounding away at the keyboard (even if it was to repeat curse words over and over) in the hope that I would make it. But, you know what? I'm not stressing. Mainly because I have too many other goals that I am achieving that letting one slip is okay by me.
In my mind, just knowing that I wrote 40,000 words in one month is amazing. I've never written so many words in such a short amount of time! So, that makes me a winner in my own mind.
But how are you faring? Did you "win" this year or are you going to make your own blue ribbon out of glue and glitter?
Please share!
I wrote about 4,000 words. I *am* a winner. (Just not a Nano one.) =)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on getting those 40,000 words done - that is great. And regardless of "winning" or not, those are still more words than you would have had, had you not participated! ;)
Jessica
I've seen on a lot of people's blogs that they've finished the challenge and I'm thrilled for them. But seriously, 40k words in one months is stunning no matter if you finish nano or not. You're definitely a winner!
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40,000 words in one month makes you a winner in my mind as well!! Way to go! :)
ReplyDeleteI just made it tonight actually -- by the skin of my teeth. Like you, I think I've written drivel, but it's a whole lot more drivel than I had before November started.
ReplyDeleteAfter my holiday plans went belly up, I pretty much gave up on NaNo. I'm working on getting back into the writing swing, because I learned some good skills from the first few weeks that I don't want to completely lose. I did make it up to 34,000 words, an impressive total for me.
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