TheBanyanTree: NaNoWriMo

[Rob McMonigal]

I've been failing NanoWriMo for 5 years now. :)

My first year, I was really ambitious, a children's story featuring
dual protagonists who get trapped in each other's time periods, one a
modern slacker, the other a child laborewr in the coal mines of
eastern PA.

That got 1100 words, if I remember correctly.

I don't even remember 2004's plot, but I do remember it got to about
10,000 words before I got stalled and quit.

2005 was a spy story.  Yes, it was the story of a retired spy being
blackmailed into one last job.  Fizzle after about 2500 words, if
memory serves.

2006 was my best shot yet.  Based off a short story I liked that I'd
written, I poured into it and probably got to about 15000 words before
quitting.  I would like to finish it sometime.

This year, 770 words and no real desire to keep moving.  I have
written little to nothing all year, and I think my days of spinning
fiction may be over.

At least until 2008. ;)

-Rob

On 11/3/07, Dee Churchill <deechurchill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/3/07, Margaret R. Kramer  wrote:
> >
> >
> > OK, I'm a whiz kid after two days of writing.  Can I continue to be as
> > optimistic and excited about this endeavor for the whole month?  That
> > remains to be seen.
>
>
> I'm chuckling, here, because I'm telling myself the same thing. Keeping up
> with the word count is no big deal after only two days, I tell myself. Let's
> see how you're doing a week from now, ol' gurl.
>
> But this makes me curious. I wonder how many Banyanites are signed up with
> NaNoWriMo this year? Sometimes we're quiet about it because we don't want
> anyone to know if we fizzle out and don't make the magic 50,000 mark. But
> the world doesn't end when that happens. I've been in the "hunt" for the
> past two years and never got close. A combination of outside distractions
> that took more of my energy and just the simple fact that I was not
> successfully shutting up my Inner Editor. Not finishing the course has not
> left an indelible stain on my forehead and the experience has given me clues
> about what to avoid this time around.
>
> Anybody else having fun giving it a try? Because it really IS fun, even when
> you're banging your head on the keyboard.
>
> Hugs, Dee ...
>