NaNooo...?
Monday, October 28th, 2024 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelWe have an accepted offer on the condo, just waiting for a closing date. All the furniture's out that's going, and almost everything else (new owners lost everything in the FL hurricane, so they'll take whatever we want to leave). Just need to get the last few decorations, do a final clean, and keep the mums on the porch from dying.
I'm taking the next few days to collapse. I slept in today (eleven glorious hours, with only two cat interruptions!), I anticipate more of the same tomorrow, and if anybody tries to schedule me for anything other than the one convention meeting I've got coming up, they are going to be made to change their minds, fast.
NaNo starts in four days. Am I doing it?
The arguments against are obvious: I'm exhausted, beyond any previous definition of exhausted I've ever known. I haven't written more than a handful of words since last November. I'd have to boot the current book back up in my brain, and I'm not sure my brain can even retain that much data right now.
The arguments in favor are more subtle, but compelling: I very much want to get back to normal, and writing is, or should be, a big part of my normal. NaNo would certainly jump-start it. Writing is one of my top priorities, and it's the one I've most abandoned for the past year. NaNo gives me a built-in framework for saying no, sorry, I can't do that thing you want, I have to write. And in various ways, my entire past year has been about doing for others. I really want to do something just for me for a while.
If I decide yes, there's also the question of what I'll actually do. It'd be the same book I dropped in the middle of last NaNo, Apocollapse. Do I start on November 1st and try to add 50,000 new words? Do I start on November 11, the day Mom went down, and aim for 50,000 total? Or some other convolution of mathing?
I should at least re-read what I've got and see if the brain cells sit up and take notice. Maybe in a couple of days, after some more zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
I'm taking the next few days to collapse. I slept in today (eleven glorious hours, with only two cat interruptions!), I anticipate more of the same tomorrow, and if anybody tries to schedule me for anything other than the one convention meeting I've got coming up, they are going to be made to change their minds, fast.
NaNo starts in four days. Am I doing it?
The arguments against are obvious: I'm exhausted, beyond any previous definition of exhausted I've ever known. I haven't written more than a handful of words since last November. I'd have to boot the current book back up in my brain, and I'm not sure my brain can even retain that much data right now.
The arguments in favor are more subtle, but compelling: I very much want to get back to normal, and writing is, or should be, a big part of my normal. NaNo would certainly jump-start it. Writing is one of my top priorities, and it's the one I've most abandoned for the past year. NaNo gives me a built-in framework for saying no, sorry, I can't do that thing you want, I have to write. And in various ways, my entire past year has been about doing for others. I really want to do something just for me for a while.
If I decide yes, there's also the question of what I'll actually do. It'd be the same book I dropped in the middle of last NaNo, Apocollapse. Do I start on November 1st and try to add 50,000 new words? Do I start on November 11, the day Mom went down, and aim for 50,000 total? Or some other convolution of mathing?
I should at least re-read what I've got and see if the brain cells sit up and take notice. Maybe in a couple of days, after some more zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
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