Community Discussion:

[writingvixen.livejournal.com]

I love how your minds think. Oh if you aren't participating in our community discussion posts, you are MISSING out. The people here are lovely and wonderful and so, so wise.

Today's topic is going to be a little heavy and I do hope we all approach it with sensitivity and honesty. But I know this community. I know its members. I have no fear that you can tackle this with class and speak truth over the group.

Unfortunately November doesn't put life on hold, even if we'd want it to. We're chained to our computers, trying our hardest to write our novels and sometimes our friends and family just don't get it.

And it's hard.

We want to be there for them and give them attention, but ... hello, novel here! Our characters need our time, our energy. We're living for 50 people this month! So...

how do you do it? How do you walk the delicate balance of real life and writing life? How do you pound out 50K and keep your friends and family happy? How do you convey to them that you NEED alone time this month? Have you ever lost a friend because of NaNo? Let's talk about the ugly side of our 50k journey into creativity: our non writing lives.

Comments

[winters-queen.livejournal.com]

My roommate has done NaNo so she knows how it works and how it can be. I try to get a chunk of writing down during the week over my lunch at work so that I don't always have to worry about missing out too much and trying to find a weird see-saw balance.

(Edit) And that should have been a reply to the post, not a reply to the comment. Gah. I need something to wake up more today.)