Sitting Out NaNoWriMo
I am not proud of this, but I am sitting out on NaNoWriMo this year. I sat out last year, too, but with the alleged commitment to writing I made for this year[1], it stings a bit more that I feel I need to sit this one out. My reasons are twofold:
I am working two jobs, and so my free time to write is limited at best. I could, theoretically, write during breaks at my day job, and e-mail the results, but the opportunities would be sporadic at best.
November is promising to be a busy month even outside of work: I’m moving, and that entails a whole mess of things, including setting up internet access, settling in, unpacking, and putting my life in order. That is the majority of my thoughts for the time being.
This isn’t to say that I haven’t been writing. There’s an interesting short story shaping up that I need to get back to, and I am still bouncing around the several novel ideas in my head. The trick, as always, is finding the time.
NaNoWriMo has been historically problematic for me. While it is usually easy to keep my motiviation up for a while, around the 10,000 word mark, life creeps in and/or the creative well runs a dry and I don’t have the ability or time to prime the pump any further. I am not proud. Next year, however, I think I will be ready to try my hand again… because I don’t know when I am truely beaten—the sign of a great writer!
- A commitment that has been rather poorly attented to, and deserves a renewal in 2009. ↩
