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October 21, 2003
NaNoWriMo Means No Friends
Oh God.
On a whim, I signed up for NaNoWriMo yesterday afternoon. For those of you who don't know (And are far too lazy to click on the link... Come on, it's just one small click people!), NaNoWriMo is a really bad acronym for National Novel Writing Month. Every November, thousands of tired novel-writing wannabes sign up in hopes that they will finally accomplish their dream of writing the next great American novel. The whole contest tries to motivate a person to write at least 50,000 words of novel(la) material by 12:00 November 30th--just to spook people with a deadline, you know? There isn't really any prize, except for this little doo-hickey that you get to post up on your page claiming that you've written at least 50,000 words. The whole thing is pretty much meant to be motivational, for people like me who are always saying that they're going to write a book... someday.
But here's my problem: I don't know why I signed up for the contest in the first place. I mean, honestly, where did I think I was going to have the time to sit down and plug through at least three pages of writing on a daily basis? I can't even handle writing five page papers within a span of two weeks--how can I expect myself to write a decent story under that much pressure?
I need to stop talking to myself as if I'm John Grisham or Judy Blume...
But there's so much involved... I'm going to have to realy push myself to do this, along with all the other 3,255,234,204 things I have to think about. And friends? Chuh! Forget about friends! NaNoWriMo literally means abandoning your friends and signs of life for an entire thirty days. I'm going to have to sacrifice my entire social life in order to get this baby done. My story (Which as of yet, is without a title) is going to end up being my new love-child. It goes wherever I go. It'll be just like being saddled with a kid of my own, except for the awkward breastfeeding in public thing. No time for shopping, no time for dating, no time for screwing around.
This.
Is.
Serious.
November is starting to look pretty grim already, you know?
Today's Soundtrack: "Just to Get By," Talib Kweli
Best Part of the Day: Getting the statistics test over with. Phew!
posted at 7:50 a.m.
