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[amarra-jade.livejournal.com]

What do you do when your writing kills your enthusiasm for your story? As far as I can tell, my options are:

1. Push myself to 50K with my current plot. This is what I did the past two years, but I was miserable the entire time and didn't feel like much of a winner.

2. Put my current plot aside for now and write something strictly for the lolz so I can enjoy myself and I won't feel like I have to write well. Seems like a good idea, but I'm not particularly good at writing humor.

3. Keep working on my current plot at my own pace. Again, seems like a good idea, except that my normal pace is incredibly slow, so I might never get it finished.

4. Quit NaNo. I really don't want to do this. I hate giving up, and I get more writing done during NaNo than any other month of the year.

Yeah, I know I'm probably being way too pessimistic about this, but I'd appreciate some advice. Thanks in advance.

Comments

[hooves.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I quit already (I quit on Day 1, after hitting the first day's word count). <--But I have other things I'd rather be doing and can't for the life of me think about writing. I've also been unemployed since April, so writing for pleasure flew out the window the moment I quit working. Ugggh.

If I were you, I'd do as suggested above and try to write your current plot in a lighter fashion-- don't feel pressured to be quite as descriptive. I find myself throwing in extra words around NaNo time (especially the word "that") because I feel I need to write super-descriptively or I'll never hit 50k.

But if it still bothers you, you could just start something for the lolz. I feel that 50k counts if it's one story or 10. So long as you're writing more in November, it should be all good.