For those of you not familliar with it, I should tell you that NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, also known as the suicidal attempt to write 50 thousand words in 30 days. If you don't feel like doing the math, that's about 1667 words per day.
In short, it's a b***h.
And I, fool that I am, decided that I would try it.
Why Anila is an idiot:
- Incapable of turning off internal editor. To the extent that she tore a week's worth of writing out of her notebook and started over six days into the challenge.
- Wastes time on Gaia when she could be writing or digging her way out from underneath the mountains of homework for three AP classes.
- Tried to do NaNo while taking said three AP classes.
- Actually signed up for the damn official website, and as a result gets the peppy e-mails about how we should all be at 25 k by now.
- Has yet to reach inciting incident.
- Looked at her local coordinator's wordcount- the woman's at 55 thousand words, curse her.
It should be noted that, stupid though I am, there is a fundamental flaw in NaNo. Why in the WORLD is it in November? Particularly from the perspective of anyone in education, this is a ridiculous time to have an enormous challenge. It's the second quarter of first semester, AKA the last big push to pull your grades up in time; life is not made easier by the fact that teachers seem to think that they MUST assign buttloads of homework NOW. From the perspective of the working world, it's just one more month.
So why November?
Why not, say, July? I mean, think about it. It doesn't really matter to those who work, and for those in school it makes all the difference. We do want to encourage young people to write, right? Exactly.
And before anyone brings up the GaiaSuWriMos, I don't see those as anywhere near the same thing. First, there's no set challenge; second, the time limit is far too long. I want to do NaNo- but I can't do it now. It does not work.
Adjusted goal: 10k by the end of December. Mostly over Winter Break.
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The Book Of Remembrance and Forgetting
Hopefully, mostly remembrance. My New Year's Resolution this year was to keep a journal...this isn't exactly a chronicle of my exploits (though at times it becomes such) as a stream-of-conciousness narrative. Enjoy.
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