November is approaching very quickly which means that so is Nanowrimo. I have participated since 2005 and November has become synonymous with Nanowrimo to me. But I haven’t been writing this year. In fact, I haven’t written anything longer than maybe 500 words since last year’s Nanowrimo. No blogging to speak of. Not even emails to friends. I seem to have gotten some kind of block. When I think of writing I really want to do it but then when I sit down to do it, it doesn’t happen. This is a strange thing for me. It used to be that as soon as I sat down to write, it would overtake me and I would have to fight with my Writer Self to stop writing when I had to do something else.
So now I am wondering if I should even undertake Nanowrimo. If I begin it and am not able to stick to writing, will I be worse off than I am now. Will it be a big hit to my Writer Self? Will it keep me from even trying to write anything? I could start it and even if I don’t make it to the 50,000 words, I think I would be happy if I could get to write 1,000 words a day. That would be so much better than I have been doing this year.
I don’t want to set myself up to fail. I don’t want to fail by not even trying. I don’t know. I have a week and a half to figure it out.
Maybe try NaBloPoMo instead? It might not be quite as satisfying as Nanowrimo but it might get you writing, even if it’s just short posts.
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Since I posted this I keep coming up with great ideas for a Nanowrimo novel! Maybe the Universe is trying to tell me something? I don’t know. We shall see.
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I ended up not doing it. I haven’t been able to write all year and that doesn’t seem to be about to change any time soon so I just figured I would skip it. I kept thinking I might start late but with only ten days left, there’s no way I could write 50,000 words.
Next year.
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