To NaNoWriMo or Not?

October 28, 2009 in Uncategorized
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Well, November is just around the corner and so is NaNoWriMo…

Seeing the fiascos of NaNoWriMos past where I jumped on to the bandwagon with much fanfare and then kinda fizzled out after the first 10-odd days, I am a bit terrified of participating this year.

So I am taking things easy – not putting too much pressure on myself – and just playing the ‘Wait and Watch” game ….

I am giving myself the freedom to join in and join out at any point – and not forcing it – and not forcing myself to over-compensate…

I find myself to be more creative when there is no sword hanging on top of my head… now, don’t get me wrong… I work well with deadlines – but that is because I always plan well and plan to have a few off days and so forth and so all my stuff is in on time.

But NaNoWriMo is a completely different story!

I got to write 50,000 words in 30 days – so, as usual, I got down to the Math. If I write for every single day, then I have to write about 1666.66 words every day. Or if I don’t write on weekends (30 days less 9 days) then I have to write 2380.95 words every day!

Now, isn’t that nice!

So it is a roundabout of 1700 to 2400 words a day to reach the 50k deadline.

Hmm…. the calculations have now been done… lets see how things work out on D-Day!