alright guys. I am currently in panic mode. And why? Well, I start a new job tomorrow with southampton city archaeology unit and i'm scared i'm not going to have any time to write even on weekends because i'm going to be so exhausted! Right now, all I can think about is archaeology, so I've hit a slump...and a big one and I have no idea what to do about it!
Any ideas?
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Days left - 23
Coffees consumed - too many to count already
Sanity? .................................
39,176 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 11 04
Project yourself forward and imagine you are sitting at home having breakfast on December 1st and ask yourself these questions;
What is the best case scenario with respect to your job and to nanowrimo? What are you prepared to do to achieve this?
What is the worst case scenario for each? What are you prepared to do to avoid this?
Only you can answer those kinds of questions. But not everything is black and white.
Would you feel good if you had done well at your job but only had 25,000 words?
Do you really need nanowrimo to write a novel?
Could you postpone nanowrimo until next year or say, january? - najanwrimo - presumably the ground is too hard to dig stuff then... ( me showing my ignorance here)
If you really want something what are you prepared to give up to get it? Sleep and a social life can be over-rated (I'm older so I can afford to say that)
Whatever you do, take care of yourself, you have time on your side and good luck :)
41,910 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 22 47
Thanks Chris. I sat down last night and thought - 'this job is important to me (duuuh, first contract out of uni) so why are you panicing about nano?' If i don't finish (again), I don't finish. But I'm sure as hell going to try!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Coffees consumed - too many to count already
Sanity? .................................
51,248 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 03 10
Good luck!
----------But don't forget, you'll have other chances. JulNoWriMo, JanNoWriMo, AugNoWriMo... it's not giving up, it's just postponing!
Anyway, absolute best of luck to you. Hope all ends well.
NaNoWriMo, JaNoWriMo, JulNoWriMo, AugNoWriMo, GothNoWriMo - count me in!
43,061 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 05 49
Chill!
When starting a new job, you have to put in more effort, this might take time away from NaNo. That's fine, because once you're settled in you can put some spare time back into writing. Chris's advicve sounded good to me. The only I'll add is that hte point of NaNoWriMo is to get you writing and to teach you that, to write, you have to write everyday. It doesn't matter if you don't reach the 50thou goal, as you'll still have written more than you would have done otherwise this month, which I count as a sucess.; Also, although the trick to writing is to write everyday, you don't do that every day of the year. What I mean is, when you're wriitng your first draft ,you want ot be writing every day if you can, but writers have points where they are not writing as they might be editing or rewriting their manuscript or starting a new job. So, if you don't finish NaNo this month, don't beat yourself up about it. You can try again for the next NaNo (I know there;s one in may) when work's stuff's settled down a bit, or you can keep writing but writing slower, say over christmas.