Errata

[channonyarrow]

So, all right, I hate rules. Wow, I can hear the gasps of surprise from here.

But this leaves me with a dilemma. Do I do Nano this year or not?

Pros:
- I told someone I'd do it with them as a way of getting them to do it.
- Writing is always good (especially when it's not when I'm trying to get ready for work)
- The move will be over then, so I'll have weekends back.
- 50,000 words is an assload of words.

Cons:
- I hate rules still, and would rather use the writing time to work on something that's between 11 and 16 K words at the moment rather than starting over.
- I suspect I'll kill myself trying to come up with 1500 words a day, rather than my normal, lightweight 1000.
- Even more weekend time lost to playing catch up.
- 50,000 words is an assload of words.

Neutrals:
- I didn't do Nano last year.
- I have a story that's about 2500 words in that I could happily trash as it stands and outline for Nano.

I suppose the logical answer is not to do Nano, simply because I don't want to write Thieves, I want to write Dead Letters. Or to do it casually - bump my daily word count and work as if I'm doing Nano, but not, you know, sign up for it.

But I also like shiny things, like things that say I completed it.

Comments

suggestion

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Use Nanowrimo as a framework to encourage you to do the project that you actually want to do.

Nobody is going to look over your shoulder and yell, "Hey, you aren't doing it right!"

Re: suggestion

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Excellent point, and I'm taking that suggestion.

Also, your icon is awesome.

Re: suggestion

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :-)

[aftertorless.livejournal.com]

I say go for it. Last year was my first year of participating in NaNo, and I think I'll be doing it again this year, just because it was such a great way to fully flesh out and move the piece I was working on at the time toward a more cohesive, finished piece.

So I guess my point here is, yeah, do it for the shiny things. :-)

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna do it!

*goes nuts with rest of flist*

[exit-eternity.livejournal.com]

Shiny things are good - and hey, think of it this way: You won't be the only one of your FL going nuts during November. ;-)

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Yes, November is, indeed, a special time when MORE of the flist goes nuts.

I'm gonna do it. If it's wrong to start with a partially completed work that I REALLY need to write "over the hump" on, SO BE IT I AM DOING IT ANYWAY.

[graeae.livejournal.com]

Just do it and continue on what you want to work on. Just add 1500 more words on it every day or do a bunch of shorts.

*shrugs* I'll be signing up and not finishing this year, I should think. It's just an aid to help you write.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

*nod* Yes, exactly - in all honesty, I doubt that I'll "win" this year, but I'm signing up anyway, as a prod to get back in the habit of writing.

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

I think I'll do exactly that. *grins* I'm gonna work on TDL! I'm gonna work on TDL!

Of course, that might count as the original thing by the time I'm done working out an outline, but I think that it's really quite solid this time. There wasn't enough Terry in the last version.