Family Emergencies and NaNo

[wordsearchgal.livejournal.com]

OK, so my boyfriend has to have surgery on Friday.  I don't think I can write.  I was doing very well, but this has thrown me off entirely.  How ould you handle this in regards to NaNo?

What I was thinking was taking a week off and starting again next Tuesday, when things will have calmed down a bit and if need be, extend NaNo into December for the amount of days I miss.

Comments

[pipe-organ-wolf.livejournal.com]

I was afraid I was going to fall behind as well. There was a death in my family, as well as two good friends of mine. I'm just taking it at my own pace. I bring the laptop or a pen and notebook everywhere, and if I feel up to it, I write. I'm not trying to match word count expectations or anything, I'm just trying to write ANYTHING. It's progressing faster than I'd hoped it would, so I'd recommend this method.

Sorry to hear it's getting rough. I wish you the best of luck.

[darwinstorm.livejournal.com]

I am doing similar - my sister passed away last week and I thought over the weekend as to whether or not I really wanted to even start nano. In the end I decided that I would start but with absolutely no pressure and I am edging along slowly and I find being absorbed in the writing gives me a good release from everything that is going on around me.

Good luck to everyone.

[vampedvixen.livejournal.com]

Use writing as your method of coping. When your mind is thoroughly busy with one thing, you can't be thinking/worry about something else.

[syntheticjesso.livejournal.com]

I would write as much as I could ahead of time, to get ahead, and then write extra hard after taking a few days off. If by "next Tuesday" you mean the 10th, you'll have pleeeeeenty of time to catch up, assuming you take off Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon. That's only 4 days- divide those words up among the rest of the month, and it's really not that much. You can totally do it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/unnecessary_/]

It might help you to lower your stress level if you have a creative outlet lik this.

[stellamaris.livejournal.com]

Stay with it if you can.

My dad just managed to give himself a hernia, and now he needs surgery. This happened today. I'm not going to stop writing though. I think that would just make me feel worse.

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

Writing actually can help. My dad died two weeks ago yesterday and the thing that's keeping me going right now is writing. I am taking it at my own pace and doing what I feel comfortable with. Just do what you can, and I wish you the best of luck.

[artykat.livejournal.com]

It is amazing how many tragedies and bad stuff happens during NaNo month!
I didn't think I could do the high pressure of writing, but I think i am going to work on a plot and start slowly. I want to write my mother's life story, but making it fiction since I don't know all the facts.

I agree, keep writing... do what you can.

[callita623.livejournal.com]

you'd be amazed at how much you can write when you find yourself behind. there were some days last year where some things happened and i was unable to write. but on other days i wrote 3K.
so don't worry about missing a few days. you can catch up without going into december.
good luck to your boyfriend.

[leentigress.livejournal.com]

I probably would tell myself that I wasn't going to write those days, but maybe I'd try to write a hundred words. And if those went well, I'd write another hundred. And so on.

[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

When my dat was in hospital a few years ago, I used to visit him and tell him what I wrote --sometimes read it out loud, sometimes say it while writing. He appreciated it. Hospitals are boring.