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I am seriously having the best Nano!
Nov. 30th, 2012 05:01 amI know Nanowrimo won’t be over for 16 or so hours, but I had to take a moment before my final 5am session of the month to point out what a wonderful experience I’ve had this year. I vowed this year was going to be different, that I was going to harness the creative energies of Nanowrimo and push myself as a writer, and out of that motivation I ended up with the most ridiculously productive November I’ve ever had.
So far I’ve written 68,839 words across numerous projects, including my "legal" nanowrimo novel, SVS, which alone is currently sitting at 50,005 words. And while I’m not finished with Chains yet and I haven’t filled the 15 RPG tags I goaled myself to fill this month… dude I filled six tags. That has to be a November record for me!
And the best thing about this Nano? I finally achieved something I’ve goaled myself each year for AND ENTIRE DECADE OF NANOWRIMO NOVELS: I wrote each and every day. This was accomplished thanks to forgetting on two separate occasions that I had I woken up at 2am to write a passage, and only realizing it the next day as I opened up the documents, beating myself up for breaking the streak by not writing, only to stare dumbfounded at passages I'd completely forgotten I'd written. The fact that it happened twice (and a handful of days apart) just makes the whole thing funnier, and stresses that beating yourself up as a writer is useless!
And it is even better! My goal for the year was to write 150,000 words of fiction, across novels, fics, RPG tags & RPG profiles-- and during my next writing session, I’m going to achieve that goal, a full month before the end of the year.
I still have a lot of work ahead of me with both Chains and SVS. Kingdom’s beta still needs to be gathered together. I have oodles of tags still outstanding, and 2 characters I need to launch at Silvermoon & Marchlands respectively. But I’m excited and confident in my ability to handle all these projects, because I’m not only finally back to loving what I’m writing, but I'm also enjoying the hell out of creating things again.
Which honestly is the greatest fuck you to depression I can think of.
2012, I had my doubts about you. But I think I’ve turned you into a pretty damn amazing year :D!
So far I’ve written 68,839 words across numerous projects, including my "legal" nanowrimo novel, SVS, which alone is currently sitting at 50,005 words. And while I’m not finished with Chains yet and I haven’t filled the 15 RPG tags I goaled myself to fill this month… dude I filled six tags. That has to be a November record for me!
And the best thing about this Nano? I finally achieved something I’ve goaled myself each year for AND ENTIRE DECADE OF NANOWRIMO NOVELS: I wrote each and every day. This was accomplished thanks to forgetting on two separate occasions that I had I woken up at 2am to write a passage, and only realizing it the next day as I opened up the documents, beating myself up for breaking the streak by not writing, only to stare dumbfounded at passages I'd completely forgotten I'd written. The fact that it happened twice (and a handful of days apart) just makes the whole thing funnier, and stresses that beating yourself up as a writer is useless!
And it is even better! My goal for the year was to write 150,000 words of fiction, across novels, fics, RPG tags & RPG profiles-- and during my next writing session, I’m going to achieve that goal, a full month before the end of the year.
I still have a lot of work ahead of me with both Chains and SVS. Kingdom’s beta still needs to be gathered together. I have oodles of tags still outstanding, and 2 characters I need to launch at Silvermoon & Marchlands respectively. But I’m excited and confident in my ability to handle all these projects, because I’m not only finally back to loving what I’m writing, but I'm also enjoying the hell out of creating things again.
Which honestly is the greatest fuck you to depression I can think of.
2012, I had my doubts about you. But I think I’ve turned you into a pretty damn amazing year :D!
