All the excitement...

[dawnheart-tane.livejournal.com]

Anyone else having trouble sustaining their pre-NaNo excitement levels?

I was so enthused about doing NaNo 05...in July and August! Now I have all this real-life stress (moving to college, failing at my job, hating my roommate who brings home strange boys while my bed is but three feet from hers), I can't dredge up even the remotest twinge of enthusiasm as I reread my notes for my NaNo 05 hopeful. I've completely lost interest in my characters, my story...the very act of writing is painful, and all I'm doing is writing in my LJ!!

There's a ton of research to be done before November, too. >_< And in-between then and now, I've got mid-terms and studying and make-up (how can you have make-up work before classes start, you ask? It's easy; try being me!)...

I love my classes, even though I've had but one day of them. I just hope that I'll be able to regain at least a modicum of my previous energy levels before November rolls around. I can't deal with reality well enough to be able to handle fantasy. And isn't that just sad?

~ * ~

Just for you
the seasons are a colorful memory
someday, I knew I wouldn't see you anymore
and so, I loved you
~w-inds. "izayoi no tsuki"

Comments

[morigale.livejournal.com]

If you're not liking the characters/plot/whatever, maybe dumping them and trying something else would help? It's NaNo, all having an outline does is make you try to squeeze the story in directions it may not want to go.
I've never had the problem with real life making me hate writing, since writing is kind of my escape.

[wondersheep.livejournal.com]

Research is for the weak.

Fake it 'til you make it ('it' being word count)

[sandraregina.livejournal.com]

Instead of dumping the concept or trying to find another one (which will add to stress), try reducing/dealing with the stress itself.
Maybe if you take some time to work on the non-writing stress and bringing that to manageable levels, you'll get excited about writing again instead of feeling even more overwhelmed.

Good luck!

[hpbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Ooh, same problem here!! School + work + husband = unsure NaNo. As far as the workload goes, I think making a schedule and keeping to it will help you focus and keep you from feeling overwhelmed. I don't think it has to be super rigid, just concrete enough to get you in the mindset of "2 hrs class, 1 hr break, 3 hrs of homework, 1 hr of writing, etc. etc."

While having a concept to work with may be helpful to some, maybe in your case you shouldn't stress so much over that particular part of nano. From what I've seen, you don't need to have any kind of background or concept to make it during Nov.

Do you think integrating your current stress issues in November will be helpful in making you feel better? (The moving to college, dealing with school and roommate thing is always interesting because it's always different!) I personally find that fictionalizing my life not only makes it seem more interesting, but it helps to kind of bleed the poison out, so to say. It puts things in perspective, or makes me feel okay for not being objective, and a little bit of stress is gone.

Sorry if I didn't help at all. =/

[dawnheart-tane.livejournal.com]

Oh, hahaha...I could never get excited enough about wanting to write about my own life. Isn't writing supposed to be an ESCAPE from reality? =)

I really do (did) love my characters. They're awesome. They just don't have any space in my life right now. I'll try to get into a schedule, but it's hard right now. >_< Really hard! I love focus, I love structure, I love routine. I just can't seem to find it right now. Hopefully I'll get my balance by mid-October and will be raring to go again by November. *sigh*

Would my damned life just freaking EVEN OUT and let me write in peace?!?!

[hpbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Aw, well... You've only been to one class, right? Hopefully it'll be better in a couple weeks. =)

[sforzie.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad about being excited... I've been wanting it to be November since... well, since December last year. ^^;; I *need* it to hurry up and be November so I can get some of this stuff out of my head already!

[mochajoy13.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way. I had a plot that I was really excited about, but now the excitement has waned. Try and come up with something new—there are so many sources of inspiration out there. As for the stress, getting excited about the writing and moving away from all the tedium of day-to-day life will make you feel a ton better.

Good luck!