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[rivka]

I'm trying to decide whether or not to do nanowrimo this year. Last November, when so many of my friends were writing, I really wished that I were part of it. This year, it looks as though even more of my friends are going to be writing. I want to be part of it.

But at the same time, it doesn't seem fair to the people in my life to have me take on another huge, time-consuming project so soon after I've finished my dissertation. I know that I was essentially an absent partner for several months - and not too great a friend, either. curiousangel did almost all the housework, and he put up with my neuroses as well. I can't ask him to do that again, and yet I can't promise that nanowrimo wouldn't consume my life.

I told therealjae that I'd work on a West Wing fanfic story in time for the Jeds deadline. I'm also working on setting up a weblog that's less journally and more commentary-oriented. Those two writing projects are probably enough. Right?

Comments

[melebeth]

I'm doing it. Mostly to see if I can, and because for me it's right after a bunch of big projects let up. This isn't to say that you should, I think you have very good reasons for not doing so. I'm just adding to the gravitational pull.

[ranunculus.livejournal.com]

I love this icon...

[melebeth]

Thank you. It's one of a series of photographs I took at Waldo Lake in Oregon.

[redbird]

I think that's enough.

I don't plan to do nano this year (though I half-accidentally renewed my login), because I would like to see if I can finish/do something with the novel I started last November, and I have another project percolating.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

I would say, go ahead and sign up. The first year I didn't make the 50K goal; but it was good for me, to - shake out some of the rust from my writing-bits. The next year, I was ready to shoot for 50K, and I made it. This year, I'm not expecting to get to 50K, but I'm doing it for other reasons. I'm tempted to start a "NaNoWriMo Loser's Brigade," for folks who are pretty sure they aren't going to make the 50K mark but want to participate anyway. ;)

I can't answer for your family, of course... but were I in your position, I would ask them. It's unlikely that the writing will take as much time as you're afraid.

Take care, dear Doctor. :)

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

How about signing up to do nanowrimo and counting the word count of the Charlie story as the first part of it, and then starting your novel after that? Sure, it's cheating by the actual rules of the thing, but do you think they care about that?

-J

[rivka.livejournal.com]

If I have to finish the Charlie story by Nov 15, I don't want to wait to start it until Nov 1! I want it to be good!

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Hmm. How about counting the portion of the story you write after November 1st toward the nanowrimo word count, but not the part from before?

-J

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

Sure, it's cheating by the actual rules of the thing, but do you think they care about that?

well, there's the part where *we'd* know she'd cheated.

rivka, if misha won't kill you and it sounds like fun, go for it.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, if you sign up and find that it's taking too much time, you're not compelled to finish it.

On the other hand, it doesn't necessarily take THAT much time out of your day if you're good about scheduling it effectively. (For example, I spent only a few hours a day and only took fifteen days. The ML for Toronto didn't touch it at all until the last week and then went crazy, doing about 1/3 of it in the last 24 hours. It all depends on how you organize your time.)

On the gripping hand, if your time constraints are sufficient or you think that it would really hurt people around you, there's always next year.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I opted for IWriSloMo (variously parsed as 'I Write Slow Motion' or 'I write Something Month') - a bunch of rasfcer's who decided, last time the question came around, that they didn't have the time and energy and ready-made project to attempt 50K; but that they would like to have just a very small slice of that competitive edge.

Some of us have very moderate wordcounts :-)

'Write something every day' had never been particularly useful for me, but IWriSloMo was just the encouragement I needed to up my wordcount and at least stare at the file most days.