Nanowrimo, Day… Look! A Bright Shiny Distraction!
Posted on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Today, I am pleased to say that it is 9:52 p.m. and I haven’t written a word all day. Most days during nano this would drive me mad. Honestly most days in my life, period, this would drive me mad. Today though I am making an exception. You see last night I got home from the meet up and was stretching my wrists when all of a sudden my tendinitis flared. It hurt to do anything with them, up to and including not doing anything.
It stopped me from posting last night, which is why I posted first thing when I woke up this morning. I’m very lucky in that most of my blog posts I can do without having to resort to actual typing. My Dragon NaturallySpeaking works very well for that. For actual writing of course, it sucks. Something about the way I talk when I’m writing to the way I think when I’m writing makes it very hard for Dragon understand me.
So today, after much deliberation, I decided to take the day off. I know that it is nano and that its it is one of my few days that I’m not working that this nano is about more for me than just hitting 50,000. It’s also about learning about myself as a writer, learning how to take myself out of a writing space and put into an editing space and learning how to treat my writing like it’s a job. I don’t want to take all the fun out of it, but I do want to be responsible enough to be able to do this full-time. Sometimes that means knowing when not to write.
So my word count won’t change today. However it isn’t changing not because I made an EXCUSE, but because I made a CHOICE.
On the other hand I won’t say I mind reading a couple dozen manga’s of Shugo Chara at all (Ikuto all the way!).
Here’s hoping that you all reached your word count for the day, whether that was zero or 10K.
P.S. – I’m pretty sure that my Chara would look something like this.
Tags: Amu Hinamori, Blog, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Hinamori Amu, Ikuto Tsukuyomi, motivation, Nanowrimo, Novels, Shugo Chara, Tendinitis, Tsukiyomi Ikuto, wrist pain, Writing
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