Submitted by anna on Mon, 16/11/2009 - 10:21
The answer seems to be no, not this weekend. I've made some decent progress so far, really got back into my story, but getting up to 26k or so is just unrealistic. Even more so because my life is in a state of flux at the moment. I don't talk about my personal life on this blog too much, but suffice it to say that I've been fighting some quite hefty personal demons for quite some years. I'm taking my 25th birthday early next year as a milestone, and a challenge to really put in a push to make sure that they are, if not dead, at least caged and incapacitated by then.
And on top of that (and also the possibility I'll be looking for a new job within the next couple of months) a series of rejections has made me reassess my writing. It takes me a long time to get from first draft to finished product, and some of what I've been sending out started four or five years ago, when I was a very different person. It would be hard to let them go, but I'm wondering whether I should just start afresh.
So, NaNoWriMo? Still keen, still love my story though I'm making major changes, but not at the top of my mind right now. But then again, I only have to do 2309 words a day for the rest of the month to finish. I'm not going to say I'll do it, but I'm not ruling it out either.
