Rite moar!

[liv]

I am not doing nanowrimo, because it's been many years since I gave up any illusion that I can write. But I have seen a few people are doing variants, such as committing to making a substantial post every day, or just taking on the goal of finding a bit more time for writing.

I think I'm going to have a go at writing 50,000 words of meaningful communication in November. I probably won't make it, but having some numbers and a game to play will hopefully motivate me in the ongoing battle to keep in touch with my friends in spite of geography. I'm making up the rules as I go along, since it's only for my own satisfaction, but basically I'm counting emails with personal content, blog posts, and comments that contain some substance and thought.

Now I have Little List the tiny computer, I might even be able to keep this up while I'm travelling, we'll see. So far, I've managed 3821 words today and 934 yesterday, so I'm 45% ahead of my target!

Comments

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

That's a great adaptation! I should consider such a thing, as well, since I'm often annoyed at how badly my personal correspondence has suffered since I began motherhood. I may pick another month, though, since I am trying to do nano this month.

[mathcathy]

Isn't 50,000 words a huge number of words? I don't knowif even my thesis was that long!

[liv]

It is a lot of words; I think the point of Nanowrimo is that it's slightly insane. If you take that target seriously, you have to do quite a lot of rearranging your life to make it. So you get a kind of solidarity with your friends through doing things like staying up all night to meet your goal, and a sense of real achievement if you do make it. It's also supposed to get people who have perfectionism issues to just get on with it and write.

I can write a thousand words in an hour, if I don't have to stop and think. A first draft of a novel is probably a lot easier to write than an academic thesis, a random collection of a hundred 500-word emails certainly is.

[mathcathy]

Wow! Well, good luck.

I don't have enough people to write to to be able to write so much.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

A first draft of a novel is probably a lot easier to write than an academic thesis

It is immensely so, IME.