Emo!Nano'er Spot

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

So while everyone is off posting their successes and wins (CONGRATS TO ALL OF YOU!), and Mean Mod Mo (alliteration... heh) is still sprinting and writing strong...

This mod has sadly thrown in the towel. Because for the first time in four NaNo years, I literally can not find the time to write, or the energy. And so, with my pitiful 12.5K, I will stand back and pat all of you on the back and be happy for your win while secretly plotting your deaths.

Just kidding. About the whole plotting deaths bit. Yeah.

This post here? Is for those who had to give up. Be it school, work, children, kidnapped by aliens... let's all mourn our loss together, and plot on what we can do differently next year to hit that 50K.

Cause you are all doing NaNo next year, right? You know you signed your souls away when you signed up for this. There's no choice. IT'S AN ADDICTION.

I've put out the cookies and hot chocolate (both with and without milk), and some carrots for you diet people who don't want cookies.

Come chat.

Comments

[bonelesspuppy.livejournal.com]

I managed a few thousand words this year and then got eaten alive by work. And when I did have time to write, I kept wandering into other projects, instead. My mistake, I think, was picking an idea I actually really liked--I wanted to do it justice and never got over my fear of messing it up. Woe.

Oh, well. On the bright side, I seem to be falling into a cycle of winning one year and losing the next, so I'm due to succeed next November.

[alanahikarichan.livejournal.com]

My mistake, I think, was picking an idea I actually really liked--I wanted to do it justice and never got over my fear of messing it up.

... that actually makes a lot of sense. Huh. I never thought of it that way, but it does explain why all those really neat ideas I get tend to die out two or three chapters in...

Anyway, good luck next year!

[bonelesspuppy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Next year I'm going to limit my pre-NaNo planning to drawing words out of a hat on Halloween night.