A friend of mine called me a couple of days ago and said "Are you doing Nano?". And I said "Heck no, are you kidding? I have a promotion campaign for "Best Left Buried", another for "Turf War", Three treatments, Two scripts, Two movie pitches, Third edits on "Ballad of Yancey Cates", a full time job, a special needs kid and a Step mother with Dementia. See, last year aftert all this was over, I sold three of my books, including the Nano book to a e-publisher - long story. I also met some people in the movie industry and since business is off for them, they decided to try to convert my stuff to films and try to sell them. Which means I have a huge amount of writing to get done. Anyway I thought (As I did last year when this friend asked me to do Nano "You are crazy person if you think I'm going to carve out a huge part of my life and write something for Nano. A certified crazy person". And she sighed and went to work on her own story. And yesterday, suddenly, it hit me. I need to write something, anyway. There is this compulsion in me that isn't being met. There are characters screaming at me in my sleep. I need a break from what is basically technical writing and to do something for fun.
SO, I'm doing Nano again. Sigh. So would you all please keep me motivated by kicking my butt in word counts?
Cindy
SImi Valley.
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nov. 3, 2009 - 08 13
Glad to hear about your success so far and good luck on you current endevours.
There's a growing number of more local nanowrimo writers from Simi Valley in the http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/10 forum. You should check that region out as well. I also keep an eye on both regions.
It's only my first year but I'm starting to understand the lure of this challenge.