Five Months
March 7
So five months ago I finished my NaNoWriMo novel. I’ve posted about half of it here on the site and I need to put the rest of it up. I finished with something like 25 minutes to spare.
On the drive home tonight I found myself thinking of story lines for another story. What is this? Five months and I’m ready to “literally” kill myself again? Geez.
I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s some strange type of procrastination; work on a book instead of on design. It seems like I think about NaNoWriMo and what I want to write this year a lot, especially to only be in March.
You know, I really thought I’d have more to write about when I was thinking of writing this during the drive home. Oh well. Ray got a new Xbox game tonight and I still have to get more stuff packed for the move this Friday.
Speaking of the move, I’ll be without Internet for a few days, from the 11th to the 14th, at least, maybe the 15th, so if you know me, don’t look for me until then. Maybe I’ll see if someone wants to write on the site for me while I go away…although what anyone would write about here is beyond me. Well, I guess we’ll see. Have a good time, everyone.
I hope everything goes well for you and Elaine. Hope to hear back from you when you’re all settled in.
Henry on March 7, 2005 at 11:38 pm
Trust me, Kenneth. If your version of procrastination is wanting to write a novel, you’re doing great. Most people’s version of procrastination is sitting around watching TV or something like that. For myself, it’s sitting around watching American Idol for an hour. Or maybe it’s spending nights playing Xbox Live when I could be finishing any of the 50 different ideas for site redesigns for mine and Amy’s website. So if you want to write a novel to procrastinate, you’ve got no reason to worry.
Ray on March 8, 2005 at 8:50 am
Depends on your personality type, but mine is such that I’ll try to do as many projects as I can, despite stress-levels. Knowing that, I have disciplined myself to turn away work or other projects that will make me lose focus of my main goal (comics). However, I have to take into consideration “fun” projects like NaNoWriMo – if it feels like something that would be really cool and has a limited timeframe, I make room for it. Those are pretty few and far between, though.
Basically, listen to your gut – if you think you should write another, then go for it. Remember, about an hour a day will win NaNoWriMo, so writing for an hour a day and focusing the rest of your time on design would work well for you, I’m betting. The only fear is when you get too many projects going on that you aren’t really getting anything done for any of them.
Max on March 8, 2005 at 4:45 pm
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Mitchell Tate on November 12, 2008 at 5:06 pm