The NaNo Pessimists Thread

[TheEarl]

Who thinks they're not going to complete NaNo, but are entering anyway?

I'm quite blatantly not going to make it. I'm the slowest writer in Christendom and have been known to spend hours over a sentence. I timed myself writing quickly over part of my lunch break - 40 minutes producing 500 words.

I'm doomed!

Who else?

The Earl

 

[impressive]

I timed myself writing quickly over part of my lunch break - 40 minutes producing 500 words.

That's about my speed as well. Quality over quantity, I say! And no, I'm not a NaNo-er.


Love your eye, BTW.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Oh yeah. I've pretty much stopped sleeping and I still can't get the time to finish one story, much less a novel. Basically this year I'm going to just try for 10,000 and be amazed if I get much more than that.

 

[mlady_france]

I'm diving in this year, and have little doubt that I will fall short of compleation. But let's give it a go eh.

 

[McKenna]

I was hoping to particpiate this year, but with starting this new job I don't think I'll have the time. Still, I think I'll start. Nothing like a good "story start" to add to the pile of other "story starts" that some year might just get endings ... but maybe not, too.

 

[Guest]

I'd seriously considered it this year. Everyone always seems to have such - fun.

November is a bad month for me, however. The musical we're doing happens mid-month and then it's off to see family for Thanksgiving. Maybe I'll try to do it in December and just pretend.

 

[Alex756]

Ahhh, see I am going into it too ignorant to think I won't finish. Then again I have a secret writing weapon. Really good production under deadlines. I once did a 25 page final paper between 8PM and 10AP, leaving me barely enough time to bum a ride off my father in law to school so I could stumble in to the last 10 minutes of the turn in window

There is comfort in not knowing how hard it is

Join me! The state of denial never turns its back on new residents. We have a nice tax rate here too.

~Alex

Now if they would only get registration back up and running

 

[oggbashan]

I did it once.

I could do it again, if...

- People would leave me alone for a few hours a day.
- My telephone would stop ringing.
- My e-mails (not including spam) dropped to 30 a day.
- My correspondence dropped to 5 letters a day.
- There weren't three or four meetings scheduled every week.
- Someone else would take part of my load.
- The local community could accept that I HAVE RETIRED!!!

Og

 

[entitled]

me! Me!

 

[Quiet_Cool]

- 40 minutes producing 500 words.

That's about my pace too. The important thing is to not get too bogged down, or to not feel to bogged down. If you pump out 500 words a day, consistently, then when you finish, you'll have 15,000. Not the NaNo goal, but better than not having written.

I'll probably fail again this year. But I'm going to try, an I'm going to try to set my pace by starting soon the pace of 500/day, then trying to add 100 evert o often. The actual number/day is something like 1650. Or roundabouts there. If you can work your way up to 1000/day before it starts... Hell, finishing at 2000 or 2300 a day isn't that hard really.

That said, yeah, I'm pretty much gonna slack again. Happens every year.

But I will try.

Q_C

 

[cloudy]

I didn't finish last year, and I might not finish this year, but I'm going to try. That's what counts.

 

[arienette]

I did it once.

I could do it again, if...

- People would leave me alone for a few hours a day.
- My telephone would stop ringing.
- My e-mails (not including spam) dropped to 30 a day.
- My correspondence dropped to 5 letters a day.
- There weren't three or four meetings scheduled every week.
- Someone else would take part of my load.
- The local community could accept that I HAVE RETIRED!!!

Og

Well that's a lot to handle right there. However, you should at least try to do it again. No harm in trying, right?

 

[Mari J]

I'm going to sign up to show my support, to participate in their forum in case there's some way I can be helpful, and to laugh, er, watch the proceedings. I am working on some writing projects already, with various deadlines; none of them would fit the Nano schedule.

I do, however, hope to write about 1500 words a day, five days a week, during November, for a total of about 30,000 words.

 

[yui]

The lot of you do realize that you are positively prolific when compared to me.

 

[oggbashan]

Well that's a lot to handle right there. However, you should at least try to do it again. No harm in trying, right?

Oh, I will.

I'm just putting my excuses up front.

Og