Sunday, November 1, 2015
6:59 PM | Posted by
Auriella
Every procrastinators last words...
However, maybe I mean it!
Maybe I should clarify what it is I am talking about. Today is November 1st and thus it is NaNoWriMo Day, 2015! Today is the day that a bunch of people are starting their 50,000 word novels written throughout the month of November. You can't start ahead and you have to finish by November 30th to win. What do you win? Nothing... Well, not nothing exactly. You get the satisfaction of completing a novel in one month's time. Most of those novels don't get published but a few have. Really, it is winning for yourself - that you have actually accomplished and completed something as big as writing a novel. If you start on the 1st, you only have to average less than 2,000 words per day. That's do-able. But, I work in retail. And I love to distract myself from completing things that are important to me. Take Bennett's baby blanket. He's already 5 months old and I haven't even reached a half way point. In order to finish his blanket by Christmas time I really need to be focused on knitting during my free time. So what have I been doing lately? Watching Gossip Girl on Netflix. A complete waste of time. And yet, right now I am contemplating going ahead and finishing the episode that I didn't finish at 1:30 this morning when I was still awake and watching tv on my iPad.
It looks like I'm fucked. I'm damned if I do, and damned if I don't! Whichever cliche you'd like to pick... On the one hand, I've never even gotten close to writing that novel. On the other hand, I really want to finish that blanket for the Stone's. Plus... I'm not sure I'm ready to write the novel that I want to write so I have no idea what I would write about! I like the idea of having something to do with myself other than work all the time... perhaps I can come up with something. Maybe tomorrow.
However, maybe I mean it!
Maybe I should clarify what it is I am talking about. Today is November 1st and thus it is NaNoWriMo Day, 2015! Today is the day that a bunch of people are starting their 50,000 word novels written throughout the month of November. You can't start ahead and you have to finish by November 30th to win. What do you win? Nothing... Well, not nothing exactly. You get the satisfaction of completing a novel in one month's time. Most of those novels don't get published but a few have. Really, it is winning for yourself - that you have actually accomplished and completed something as big as writing a novel. If you start on the 1st, you only have to average less than 2,000 words per day. That's do-able. But, I work in retail. And I love to distract myself from completing things that are important to me. Take Bennett's baby blanket. He's already 5 months old and I haven't even reached a half way point. In order to finish his blanket by Christmas time I really need to be focused on knitting during my free time. So what have I been doing lately? Watching Gossip Girl on Netflix. A complete waste of time. And yet, right now I am contemplating going ahead and finishing the episode that I didn't finish at 1:30 this morning when I was still awake and watching tv on my iPad.
It looks like I'm fucked. I'm damned if I do, and damned if I don't! Whichever cliche you'd like to pick... On the one hand, I've never even gotten close to writing that novel. On the other hand, I really want to finish that blanket for the Stone's. Plus... I'm not sure I'm ready to write the novel that I want to write so I have no idea what I would write about! I like the idea of having something to do with myself other than work all the time... perhaps I can come up with something. Maybe tomorrow.
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