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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.

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[hooves.livejournal.com]

I can't write badly either, but I also feel that writing BADLY is not the answer-- WRITING is the answer. I don't feel that people should feel pushed to write amazingly well, or wonderfully. There's no reason to write badly on purpose (and I doubt anyone who actually writes badly in NaNo does anything with their novel), but when you feel pressured to write to the very best of your ability, it can be hard to churn out 50k in a month's time, because every day it'll feel like a chore. Give yourself the option of not writing everything perfectly.

Don't write badly, but just write to the best of your ability within reason for the month of November. ;P

[amarra-jade.livejournal.com]

I'm not writing badly on purpose. That's just the only way I can write a first draft.