I've been avoiding doing a post about NaNoWriMo (National
Novel Writing Month) out of the fear that this year will end in my shame like
every other year. See every year I swear I am going to win, then within the
first week I quit. So I thought I would spare myself the shame. But low and
behold here I am talking about it.
So what changed?
This year I actually feel genuine confidence in myself and
more understand about myself. I'm not the fastest writer, generally I am happy
to be able to squeeze a couple hundred words out when I try really hard at
writing. This probably wasn't helped by my lack of taking time to write. I
would go weeks, if not months, between sitting down and writing. Recently
though, I've stumbled across a group of people on Tumblr that gather in a chat and
run Word Wars (the practice of writing as much as you can in a set amount of
time). Most of the writers in the group are fanfiction writers, and when I
started writing with them, that was what I was working on. But now with NaNo in
the air, some of us are working on original works.
We all challenge and encourage each other to do better and
in the few weeks I've been with them I've increased my writing speed to levels
of me being able to handle the 1600 word a day demand NaNo requires. And even
better I feel myself typing more and more and getting faster.
I can feel myself becoming a better writer and I feel a real confidence that this year I will make my personal goal (15,000) if not win NaNo.
Good luck with reaching your goal and well done for jumping in. Hope you're enjoying it. :-)
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