I've never participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), and I don't plan to do so. If you NaNo, good for you! I'm genuinely happy for and supportive of you. I won't do it, though, because I know me and this is what will happen:
- I will start full of energy and good intentions.
- Something will happen that will cause me to miss a day.
- I will slip behind and never catch up.
- I will then berate myself for failing at something as simple as this.
- My brain weasels will use this as an example of why I'm a useless person and will remind me of my failure on a regular basis.
Look, I don't make the rules here; this is just how my brain works. The best I can do it try to mitigate the effects.
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All that said, I'm still going to try to do something this November, because I've felt like a slack-ass for quite a long time and I want to get back into the habit of writing. To that end, instead of writing a novel this month I'm going to try to write more blog posts. My goal will be five posts per week, although I give myself advance forgiveness if I don't make that goal.
Since this is the second week of November and I'm only now writing this, you can see what a splendid start this is for me.
Look, I make no promises about quality, just quantity.
... okay, I've spent the past three hours trying to think of something to add to this, and I can't. So I'm calling it here. But at least I wrote something.
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