the word meter is back up ~ ooo yay

[lookingland]

17,570 / 50,000 (35.1%)

i've mentioned elsewhere that i may give up on NaNo this year. i keep digging deeper into the muck on this one and i dunna like what i'm finding down there. the book has gone all wonky and blah blah blah (and mostly blah). i'm giving it through the rest of the week before i bail. i just keep thinking of all the other things i need to/want to do right now. seems like i should want to write this book (and i do!), but i feel like too much artificial pressure is leaning on its already narrow little windpipe. it's definitely suffering from oxygen deprivation.

i wrote a long thing about the other reasons i think i will give up the NaNo ghost, but deleted it because i didn't want to risk offending any of my NaNoing friends. just because i am jaded and cynical about some things doesn't mean i should crap on it for other people. not all things work for all people. maybe this is the year for me to admit that this doesn't work for me.

that's all.

Comments

[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

Whacho talkin' 'bout, Willis?

I'm of two minds about Nano, myself. It gets a lot of people off their buttocks and writing, which is good. For me, the 6000 words I've written are complete and utter slop - so, good use of my time? Probably not.

I'm a place where I'd rather produce clean drafts than just words - just the evolution of things for me, I guess. Who knows if I'll contain to think that?

So, the moral of the story, morning glory, is...do what works for you in the now (imo, of course. Your mileage may vary). Even if you decide to give up the Nano ghost today, you can always pick it up again next week if you change your mind.

*squishes*

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

yeah, i hear you and didn't realize until i started that i've produced reams and reams of slop over the years ~ to little or no purpose. i need to focus down and do the writing right perhaps.

i hope whatever that was that squished wasn't a stewed tomato in your pocket ~ because that's just...ew.

: D

[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

Slop Artists Unite! Err....maybe consider the slop as battle scars? That's kinda how I view mine - the hoops through which I had to jump, the dues I had to pay....err....look! More slop! Hee :)

Nah, no stewed tomatoes. That tends to be messy all 'round...

And, just out of curiosity, how do you know your slop is slop? Maybe you're being too hard on yourself?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

well there's slop that you would feed to pigs and then there's slop that goes straight to the boghouse.

that's how i know the difference ~ hahahaha ~

while i can be as self-denigrating as the next dramaqueen about my work, i know the difference between something that should have never been written and something that is just a diamond (or even cubic zirconia) in the rough.

besides, i have probably a million pages of slop laying around already ~ why add to that pile when i could be digging a pony out of the horseshit instead?

: D

[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

Pony!

Err - sorry. I'm easily distracted today :)

And, yeah, I know what you mean about knowing the difference - I wish I could put my finger on it, but yeah...that would summarize my Nano project - destined for the pigs :)

Did you know "boghouse" sent me diving for my dictionary? (It went something like this: "Ooooo! Boghouse! What's a boghouse? Maybe I need to write a story about one!" - see? Easily distracted.....poor small brain...:) )

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha ~ everyone needs a story about a boghouse!

i wrote a story about a haunted boghouse for Eleison ~ i don't think that one will ever seen print (then again, you never know!)

and speaking of ponies ~ i'm on the verge of having a bazillion pony questions for you. brace yourself!

: D