It's not the concept of writing 50K in a month that gives me the Scooby Doo "Aroo?" I mean, that's scary but feasible.
It's not being able to track your "Writing Buddies'" progress, the daily yardstick against which you feel you shouldn't measure yourself but you always do anyway.
It's not the idea of hanging a "Gone Fishin' til 11/30" sign on the office door of my internal editor while I plow forward willy-nilly, deaf, dumb and blind to plot holes, potholes and dillholes in my manuscript.
No, the hard part of NaNo is that fucking NaNo Stats page. WTF, NaNo? Nothing is scarier than seeing where you need to be - on a daily basis - in order to finish on time. Now as of today, I'm doing pretty well but as you can see, one bad day, one 24 hour period spent in a Mexican prison while I'm on vacation and WHAM-O! It'll be like trying to catch a runaway freight train. On foot.6966 words as of last night. I feel bright, joyous, pleased as pie with my little word-cranking self. Until I look at my NaNo stats page...
You'll find me under my desk, curled in the fetal position, rocking back and forth muttering to myself if you need me.
You can do it girl!! Keep going! Rock out!!
ReplyDeleteAmazing progress, Gretchen. I'm in awe. Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteWhat are you worried about? You're doing great! I, OTOH, hadn't noticed this page before and really wish you hadn't pointed it out.
ReplyDelete*runs away screaming*
You'll be fine! 2k words a day isn't so bad. You got this! 8D
ReplyDelete"I plow forward willy-nilly, deaf, dumb and blind to plot holes, potholes and dillholes in my manuscript."
ReplyDeleteHahahaha! That's totally me right now. It feels freeing, and yet drives me crazy at the same time!
2K isn't bad...today. Tomorrow it may be like running up the side of a gravel mountain!
ReplyDeleteAnd Megan, I literally lay in bed at night thinking "Need to fix this, need to kill that. Why doesn't that make sense?" Torture.
you can do it!
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