Just around the corner...

[yellowhorde]

NaNoWriMo is just around the corner and related communities are starting to become active. The participants are getting pumped up and why not? It can be a very thrilling/anxious/nerve-wracking/fantastic experience.

I'd like to participate this year, but while I have plenty of half-baked ideas, I probably won't have the time. And I'm not willing to forsake what little sleep I am getting to start yet another half-finished story.

And that's the problem, isn't it? Half-finished stories.

I've already proven to myself that I can write 50,000 words in 30 days if I just sit my ass down and WRITE (it is so freaking hard to kill that internal editor, though). Hell, according to Fanfiction.Net, The Hunted, my 2007 NaNo project, is about 99,000 words now... and it's still not finished.

Reaching the goal isn't enough. I want to finish the project, or at least the first draft. Now THAT would be the challenge for me. Not just 50,000 words, but a finished first draft.

Comments

[not-cynical.livejournal.com]

Well, you could always do your own little writing-thing when you have time? Pick a month you're actually gonna have time in (or make it your own variation of Nano? Or do it for something like novel_in_90?) and use it to just finish things?

I dunno, I'm useless at finishing projects myself so I know how frustrating it is! If you do go for it though, um. Good luck?

[yellowhorde.livejournal.com]

Don't mind me, I'm just whining. I just need to keep plugging away, that's all. Slow and steady and all that. haha.

[not-cynical.livejournal.com]

Ah, sorry, my mistake! ;) You can do it Heather!