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It isn’t giving me ideas, and it isn’t making me write. It doesn’t send me nag or scold emails if I miss my word count. It isn’t my mother and it doesn’t tell me to pick up my socks.
What NaNoWriMo (my first, 2019) is doing for me is to provide a construct within which to hit goals.
I’ve had several either 0 or very low (200) word count days. I’ve had many on-target word count days, and a few...several days on which I went far beyond. It helps me to keep myself on track by adding another piece, perhaps a good kind of pressure to git ‘er done.
And I’m not trying to rake the yard or do the laundry “git ‘er done,” but writing-a-story-that-other-people-can-read git ‘er done.
I don’t know whether the site enables people to set up a NoWri for just any old month, but I plan to set up a spread sheet which mimicks the same functionality, the daily word count, the target, the days-to-go.
I chose the most private, least sharing way to participate and I’m comfortable with that.
The biggest thing I’ve learned from the NaNoWriMo practice is that I am seeing for myself that it is entirely physically, cognitively and temporally possible for a person to rough-draft an entire novel-length story in 30 days.
For me, that’s a huge epiphany. I can actually DO it.
And, I am doing it!
Hope this helps and inspires others on the verge of making such a journey.
What NaNoWriMo (my first, 2019) is doing for me is to provide a construct within which to hit goals.
I’ve had several either 0 or very low (200) word count days. I’ve had many on-target word count days, and a few...several days on which I went far beyond. It helps me to keep myself on track by adding another piece, perhaps a good kind of pressure to git ‘er done.
And I’m not trying to rake the yard or do the laundry “git ‘er done,” but writing-a-story-that-other-people-can-read git ‘er done.
I don’t know whether the site enables people to set up a NoWri for just any old month, but I plan to set up a spread sheet which mimicks the same functionality, the daily word count, the target, the days-to-go.
I chose the most private, least sharing way to participate and I’m comfortable with that.
The biggest thing I’ve learned from the NaNoWriMo practice is that I am seeing for myself that it is entirely physically, cognitively and temporally possible for a person to rough-draft an entire novel-length story in 30 days.
For me, that’s a huge epiphany. I can actually DO it.
And, I am doing it!
Hope this helps and inspires others on the verge of making such a journey.