NaNo looms...help!

[alliecat8]

I have an October dilemma. It's the 8th, right? That means I've got 23 days to decide if I'm gonna do NaNo this year. (For those who don't know NaNo, that's National Novel Writing Month which is November, and I've written two NaNo novels in the last two years.) I want to do it, like, a LOT, but the last two years I left for my birthday vacation on the last day of the month, so I only had one less day to finish. This year I'm leaving on the 27th, meaning I'll have FOUR less days to finish. *does the math* That means I've gotta write 1,923 words a day to get the required 50,000, instead of the 1,724 I had to write the other 2 times. That's 200 more words, and when you're writing almost 2,000 a day, that's a LOT of words! Also, last year's novel is a MESS, and I'd kinda rather edit it and post it, since I've already made a home for it at everafter_verse. But I really really want a 2008 NaNo banner! I dunno, y'all! Tell me what to DO!!!!!

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[alliecat8.livejournal.com]

Oh, you are SO RIGHT about the timing. OMG, no one but a man could be so oblivious that they'd set up something like NaNo in NOVEMBER, of all months, when we Americans have Thanksgiving, and then the Christmas season steals our bodies and souls for a month. Is Chris Baty (the head of NaNo) a man or a woman?

Y'know what, though? I thrive on the craziness of doing NaNo in November. Somehow it galvanizes my muse when I have to do insane things like write in the car as hubby drives us to football games in other towns, or to crawl into the back of our SUV on the 6-hour drive to Knoxville to see my mom at Thanksgiving, and write up a storm. Or -- I love this part -- getting out of cleaning up after Thanksgiving dinner because OMG, I still have 1,627 words to write!!! (I have fond memories of typing away in the bedroom while hearing OTHER people cleaning up the kitchen, lol.)

But yes, thank you(!), last year's story deserves to live, and I NEED to finish it. I will, and if I don't you have my permission to kick my ass, okay? ;)

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, only a man! Who knows if the Chris in question is a man or a woman? I've never looked into it enough to know!

And I do envy you being able to write in the car. Unfortunately I'd be emptying the contents of my stomach all over the paper if I tried that! ;-)

I would like to try it, but I'd never manage November! (and we don't even have thanksgiving). Just too much going on.

I am proud of writing 180,000 words in eight months last year though, which was my attempt at the whole thing. Now if I could just edit that down to under 100,000 then maybe I'd be singing! Plus with all my unfinished ideas and WIPs that I really really want to finish, I know I'd be much better placed to work on tidying up too many of them than on starting something new, no matter what my brain is telling me to start writing now! Ha! Perhaps I'll have my own Nano in March when life tends to be quieter!

Good luck to you though, since I can see from your replies that you've made up your mind to do it again! Woo!