NaNoWriMo Letter of Resignation
Allen November 22nd, 2004
I hereby submit my NaNoWriMo letter of resignation.
No, I’m not going to stop writing on my NaNoWriMo novel. It’s just that I’ve given up on trying to "win". Given that I’m so far behind that I would have to write about a bajillion words per day to catch up to the goal of 50,000 words, I’ve decide to win by not attempting to win.
So my mini-NaNoWriMo goal is to write approximately 500 words per day until the novel is finished. I will go ahead and post what I have so far on my NaNoWriMo blog and the continue to update with my extremely rough draft version. I should finish out the NaNoWriMo month with about 14,000 words completed on my "first" novel. Which is about 14,000 more words than I started out with at the beginning of the month. And believe me, for someone who has wanted to "be an author", actually writing for a change is a win.
Thank you NaNoWriMo for giving me the ability to write poorly in haste. Sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the good. I typically don’t read historical fiction, but I figured since I didn’t care that much about the genre, I was allowed to mess up in that as well. Sometimes doing something poorly is liberating.
Perhaps now I’ll try to catch up on some of my back-dated postings in my main blog.
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