Top Ten Reasons Why This November Sucks BALLS for National Novel
Writing Month
10. There is a big meeting at work every November, requiring
tons of preparation and longer than normal hours.
9. I have doctor’s appointments every week, cutting into
precious after work hours.
8. I am ill prepared in the manner of food prep and keeping
myself and Husband from starving to death.
7. Since the weather is nice, the weekends are fun-filled.
6. If the weekends aren't nice, I have massive attacks and
spend them crying.
5. My meds have to be tinkered with.
4. That means that I will likely be suffering from the excess
fatigue, nausea, dizziness, diarrhea that comes as side effect of whatever new
drug I am put on. (Great for concentration!)
3. I am going to begin preparations for the holidays: i.e.
SHOPPING.
2. At some yet-to-be-determined point in the month, the
non-english speaking in-laws whom I have never met are going to be staying at our home for ten days.
1. THANKSGIVING.
But I’m still going to write. Oh yes, I am still going to
write. Last night I kicked up my word count to 1300. AND I decided that
cheating is okay. I am still only recording the words I actually write. Already
written words don’t count…. Yet.
Still, couldn't they have picked, like, MARCH or something?
3 comments:
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Aw, I can only imagine it is so hard! But I think that's the point - you can't let all the things (although you have more things than most going on right now) get in the way of writing. Even if it is writing without a cohesive plot line!
Hey Jules, so, writing anything is kind of like writing anything else. Even poets seek out plot lines. But more often than not they only show up AFTER you've done a good portion of your writing, and even more often you'll have written what you think are the first three "chapters" of something only to discover they work better as the last three.
I'd recommend you free yourself from "writing about yourself". You could have a character based on you, but the plain truth is that plain truth about plain lives is so very often boring. Writers get to lie, and they get to call it fiction. Take advantage of that.
"Writing what you know" only works insofar as you let in inform your work, not dictate it.
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