Oh, no? OK, moving on.
I don't think I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year. [insert gasps of shock here] I just don't know if I'm up for it. We're moving in DAYS, and then begins the process of Putting the House Together. I would love to believe that we're actually going to decorate and arrange as we go, but let's face it: we're going to find an unsorted box full of crap that we have NO idea what to do with, we're going to shove it aside, and we're going to either hide it or try to deal with it in the months following the move. I know this. We still have packed boxes from when we moved from ENGLAND.
I also am not sure if I need it. I've participated in NaNo for four years now, and I've finished novels in three of them. I now know that not only can I write a novel, I can write a one in 30 days. Granted, they're all hovering right around the 50,000-word mark, and thus too short for any grown-up novel, and they all suck, but that's not really the point. The point is that I can do it. I've proven it to myself and I've proven it to the world. There's no need to play the game anymore.
BUT. (Yes, there's always a but.) I've done this for FOUR YEARS. This will be my FIFTH year. That's what I call stickin' with something. As one of my major insecurities is about my willingness to give up when I just don't feel like doing something anymore, something that screams commitment and longevity speaks to me. Plus, I have an idea for a YA novel banging around in my head that I really want to get out. I've done some world-building for it already, but I could use a month of dedicated writing to really knock this sucker out.
So ... yeah. I really don't know. It's six on one hand, half a dozen on the other, in my opinion. And it's not like I wouldn't be writing during the month of November, it's just that I wouldn't dedicate myself to writing approximately 1,667 words per day.
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