Yesterday evening (it's now late at night) I noticed it was the first day of National Novel Writing Month and decided to join in, despite the lack of forethought regarding the decision. Committing myself, giving myself an actual deadline, and participating with a community to write the novel I've been dinking away at for - what, two years now? - seems like an empowering thing to do. So I joined NaNoWriMo, and only just realized that means I will be writing on average 1,250 words per day for the next month! Talk about going from 0 to 60 in 5 seconds. I no longer have the luxury of not feeling like writing, of wondering whether I should outline or research a little more before writing. This is quite likely one of the best decisions I have every made. I am telling everybody that I am writing a novel this month so that I will be publicly humiliated if I don't finish. It's all about incentives, isn't it?
Since I started in the evening, I am a day behind already! I'm going to have to sit down first thing and start writing tomorrow.
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