Camp Failure…
I logged on to the Camp NaNoWriMo
If you’re sticking to the daily target of 1,612 words per day, you should be approaching 13,000 words.
Phew, good job I’m keeping up with the daily target of…oh crap, hang on. I haven’t touched my nano novel in days! This weekend was supposed to be the ‘let’s kick ass’ catch up to end all ‘let’s kick ass’ catch up weekends. Not only was I going to catch up on my word count, I was going to blast through so many words that I could take next week off!
As usual with my writing plans, this one went downhill pretty fast. I slacked off on Friday night, deciding that if I got all my weekend vegetating out of the way at the beginning of the weekend I could put in two whole days of hard work and catch up in no time.
Wrong.
I forgot I had a social event planed on Saturday…well when you get out the house as little as I do you tend to forget these things! I got home with plenty of time to put in a full night of writing, especially as I’m a night owl anyway. I got home around 7pm, which left around seven hours of writing time if I did nothing but tap away at the keyboard! I’ll catch up no problem!
But if it’s that easy to catch up I might as well watch a bit of TV first…(I know, I know, I disappoint me too).
But at least I still had Sunday! I say had because it’s almost over. I woke up late, went shopping, went out on a dog walk…you get the idea, anything but plonking my bum in a seat and getting on with the amazing ‘let’s kick ass’ catch up I’d been using all last week as an excuse not to write!
So, not much writing done this weekend (I’ve just done a few hundred before writing this post), but I’m not that far away (pfft) from the official word count of 13,000…it’s what? The 9th? The 9th what? Oh the latest ‘camp news’ was put up on the 9th? But today’s the 10th…oh crap.
Yep, that’s right. Another 1,612 just snuck up and pissed all over my current word count.
For those of you that could do with a good laugh, I am currently at 6,602 words.
I should be at 16,129…in one and a half hours.
That’s only 111 words a minute…*gulp*
Damn you procrastination!
How are the rest of you doing with writing??
But you can sneak extra time in to write through lunch and coffee breaks, you won't need sustenance – adrenaline will carry you, and take your laptop to the loo when you go….no, scrap THAT image (I said SCRAP!)…
On second
See – this iswhy I confine the 'madness' to normal 'Nano', once a year!
Be a man – stand up for yourself and don't let Nano pull your strings!
;-p
When it comes to the dreaded "P", Steven, we're two of a kind. There's so much "going to", "alright, maybe" and "if I just" in my writing these days, it's a wonder I get anything on paper.
In some ways, it's good that I've got too many WIP's on the go, as when the editing is sucking me dry one night, I can go over to the story I'm penning longhand in my notebook. If THAT dries up, I can pick away at the novella I've started on MyWritingSpot.
…OR I can simply say "I'm way too burned out from an extremely busy weekend, f*ck this for a game of soldiers", and play Ultra Bomberman online.
(who is disappointing whom??)
Steve,
Bum on seat – DON'T log onto internet – and just write any old bollocks (not literally!) until you're exhausted. Do a bit each day, even if it's 100 words – it all counts.
Come on, fella!
Best,
Col
I haven't quite hit 13000 words yet… not far off. Camp NaNo reckons at this rate I'll finish on 13th August – my birthday!
I think I'm picking up speed however I think I might run out of story before I get close to 50000. The same thing happened last November – but I was a hell of a lot closer to the end when I started having to unleash the plot bunnies.
You know, if you really wanted to be a writer, you'd just write and nothing would get in your way, not your TV, not your dog, not your social events. It's pretty USELESS being a writer if you don't write. Thankfully, I burn the hours playing World of Motherfucking Warcraft which, much like smoking on a balcony, inspires me to write copious amounts dogshit about elves. Okay not so much inspiration – just copying. I write loads asshole – so don't blame ME for not writing. This month, for example, I wrote fifty whole pages. FIFTY A4 PAGES and I still have time to draw pictures of elves, paint my Warhammer figurines, and troll blogs ensuring I reply to EVERY COMMENT with more of my WEIRD SHIT. But whatever. Deal with it how you want.
(Just sharing the madness, you're welcome).