It's NaNo time!

[agilebrit]

And NO, I am not participating.

I attempted it once. I got about six thousand words out of it before life interfered and it ground to a dismal halt.

I mean, who the hell decided that it should be in November, for God's sake? Smack in the middle of an incredibly busy holiday season, where I'm actually expected to interact with my family and travel hundreds of miles to see them as well! Churning out 1,667 words a day during November is patently impossible for me.

Not only that, I'm not sure I even have a novel in me. My Muses seem to prefer short form. The longest fanfic I ever did was "Mustard Seed," and that capped out at about 35K words. Now, all the stories taken as a whole in the MustardVerse might put it over novel-length (I haven't actually checked), but they're discrete parts of a series, not a whole--each one can be read as a standalone with the proper "previouslies" introduction. The longest origific I've done skated in at under 10K words (and is being published soon!).

So. That, in a nutshell (or possibly a teal deer; you decide), is why I'm not participating in NaNo.

That being said, for those of you on my flist who are participating? Go, you! Getting the words on the screen is half the battle. You might be churning out crap, but crap can be edited into not-crap. A blank screen, not so much.

I'll be over here on the sidelines, waving pompoms. As my friend kenrand likes to say: Anyone can say you can't write. Let no one say you don't.

Comments

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

November is a terrible month for writing. January would be preferable. I participated and made the 50K a couple of years ago, and it gave me the satisfaction of knowing it could be done.

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

I'd love to do NaNo too--never tried it--but yeah, November's a terrible month for it. It's right in the middle of the semester, so while I get Thanksgiving break, it's otherwise a very busy month, and since finals week is the second week of December, November's when most of the big final projects are due.

As hard a time as I might have getting out 1,667 words a day, though, the overall length wouldn't be a problem; I definitely tend toward long stuff. Too long. >_< I'm having that problem with my workshop story right now...