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

[nspd.livejournal.com]

I'm at 6,537 words, and definitely not finishing this year. :[ I'm disappointed, but not terribly, because I have had a lot on my plate this month and lost a lot of my motivation early on, so I didn't have my hopes up.

I think my main problem was that I was writing a novel that I've been planning and anticipating for some time. It was hard for me to get into the habit of writing and not worrying about quality, because it was really important to me to tell this story and have it come out good. Next year, I'm going to write something that I don't have so much invested in, so that I'll be okay with letting it take whatever twists and turns it does and possibly end up with scenes that I don't like at the time. I can edit them later or just leave it as it is if it's not a serious story. I was worried about making mistakes with my novel because I might not feel up going through and editing all of them and then I'd be stuck with something I wasn't happy with.

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

I think that's where my first naNo failed on me too... I was writing it for a friend, been promising it for over a year, and used Nano as my excuse to "finally get it done!"

Well, that worked out WONDERFULLY [/sarcasm]