So I just found out that this existed-

only good advice is... prepare for the unrepairable-for...

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That's about as much sense as I can make at 2am.

DIG£ST FOR FR£AKS 小林丸

advice....

come to write-ins - two others or seventeen other people with the same deadline and head of steam is incredibly encouraging - and being in a group with longhand writers, laptops, lip-pullers and head scratchers is just fun. If you're having angst or want to discuss something plot-wise or otherwise, there are willing participants to listen/to suggest/to nudge you back on the path.

team up with individuals - you live in one of the ML's backyards - and there's others of us in this Roeland Park/Mission/Overland Park area. Find a time that works for you and a location that you can get to reliably. Toto's has a lot of room and the guy running it is a sweetheart. Post where you're going to be and see if people show up. There are established write-ins too. Find someone who will push you, keep you on target and that you feel accountable to. Enlist their aid.

inner editor is out the window (defenestration is good word) - no going back to fix a plot hole or to change the main character's name back to Charlie or fix those comma splices that Esther hates. Fix it later in December or in 2009. Get all the words out on the page/the computer screen/however you are putting it down.

carve out some time every day to write. Even if you don't make the 1667 each day, put something down. Even if your day is full sunup to sundown, you can squeeze in 10 minutes here and there, write through lunch (NanoDiet), turn off the tv for one episode of the Biggest Loser and work diligently on your writing (reward yourself later with the new episode of Lost, if that's your thing)

some reward themselves. If you have a book you really want, or a sports car if that's your socioeconomic bracket. Set the goal of 50K and if you cross it - you win the thing (or permission to do something you've always wanted - get a significant other involved and the sky is the limit).

know in your heart that it is possible - not for just the others involved - but for you individually.
then you cannot be denied.

ask for help if you are stopped, stymied, or feel that you don't want to write this particular story. we've been there before.

you can do it!

Hey, Kurt

well, you're doing better than I did my first year when I found out it existed on Nov. 29th. Anyway, hi and welcome to the board. I'm one of those fellow Roeland Parkers of which M'oleary spoke (i'm near the skateboarding park! yay!). Have you done much writing or are you just starting out? Got plans to become a weekend writer or a the mostest famousest novelist in all of existence? Either way, the advice is the same: have fun.

NaNovember can teach you things about writing (how you write, how you should write, how you should let go of all preconceptions), but only if you're smiling and loose enough to pay attention. This here is a fun place. This is where we give ourselves permission to spend some time doing something we love. So, enjoy it. Or else.

Last bit of advice: never try to beat delayra for word count. ooo, that'd be scary.

Zen the Fajita