NaNoWriMo 2015... I have failed. It's day 17, and I should have over 28k words written.
I have 1209.
That means 3486 words per day to finish on time. Right.
Last year, I worked full time (still do), had a baby (still do... well, now she's a toddler), and still I cranked out the first draft of Book One. As I was planning NaNo this year, I didn't see much difference between 2014 and 2015, but the differences are hugely real.
It was a strict 8:00-4:30 job, and this year my job is all over the map (events coordinator, WHEW). I had a baby who was doing a little shuffle-crawl thing and slept 2-3 times a day, and this year I have a toddler who runs and only naps at daycare. And several family obligations have popped up this year. So yes, there is a big difference between NaNo 2015 and NaNo 2014.
These are all big obstacles, but they would be easier to overcome if I had the same drive for New Book as I did for Book One. I needed a break from my characters, so I haven't touched it since September. But apparently I'm over the space, and I keep thinking about that story and what I could change.
I've rewritten Book One probably 4 or 5 times, but hadn't put it down in the 10 months that I was working on it. And now Amara, Don, and Ryan keep bugging me and putting different scenarios (in most cases, better ones) in my head and coming up with really epic lines of hatred/jealousy/love/whatever all the time. And I'm just over here like:
But they don't care. Damn, I sound like a crazy person.
Regardless, I'm not going to win NaNoWriMo 2015, so I don the cone of shame for a brief moment, but I'm realizing that now isn't the right time to start New Book when I'm still living in the other world with the other characters.
I can multitask, but not that well!
I have 1209.
That means 3486 words per day to finish on time. Right.
Last year, I worked full time (still do), had a baby (still do... well, now she's a toddler), and still I cranked out the first draft of Book One. As I was planning NaNo this year, I didn't see much difference between 2014 and 2015, but the differences are hugely real.
It was a strict 8:00-4:30 job, and this year my job is all over the map (events coordinator, WHEW). I had a baby who was doing a little shuffle-crawl thing and slept 2-3 times a day, and this year I have a toddler who runs and only naps at daycare. And several family obligations have popped up this year. So yes, there is a big difference between NaNo 2015 and NaNo 2014.
These are all big obstacles, but they would be easier to overcome if I had the same drive for New Book as I did for Book One. I needed a break from my characters, so I haven't touched it since September. But apparently I'm over the space, and I keep thinking about that story and what I could change.
I've rewritten Book One probably 4 or 5 times, but hadn't put it down in the 10 months that I was working on it. And now Amara, Don, and Ryan keep bugging me and putting different scenarios (in most cases, better ones) in my head and coming up with really epic lines of hatred/jealousy/love/whatever all the time. And I'm just over here like:
But they don't care. Damn, I sound like a crazy person.
Regardless, I'm not going to win NaNoWriMo 2015, so I don the cone of shame for a brief moment, but I'm realizing that now isn't the right time to start New Book when I'm still living in the other world with the other characters.
I can multitask, but not that well!
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