musingaloud | In which I concede! (Reply)

Ok, I'm NOT going to finish/win Nano. I figured from the beginning that I wouldn't, given my problems with November as the month. I gave up yesterday. The WIN is that I did get 27 k written and further along in the plot than I've ever been before, with even a hint of where to go from here and how to end. So it's not all loss. Nano is never, in my mind, about winning, but only about writing as much as possible and pushing past the "I can't do it" mind set. And writing even though the inner editor is whispering insidious words about how horrible you are as a writer. So, even though I officially "lost", I'm not counting it as that. Any progress made is always a win.

However, I am soooo jealous of those who are swimming their way through, and wish I could do it, too. I know I CAN write 50k in a month, I did it in July last year. But November is just the most hellish month that could have been picked for me on a normal basis (ok, besides December), and this year was even worse. Vacation, procrastination, medical procedures, procrastination, antibiotics that have put my entire system into overdrive, procrastination, and Thanksgiving and its preparations are just too much for me.

I feel better now the pressure is off. And I'll just suck it up and pay full price for Scrivener when it debuts. If I decide to buy it. I have the Beta version but haven't had time (see above) to play around with it yet.