Day 30 - Do I need a title for ‘failure’?

And so, I lamentably fail at NaNo this year. :/

In a way, I don’t even care * that * much. I’m just glad that I’ve managed to come up with a story solid enough to keep writing it later on–and that I’ve finished my text analysis on Faulkner’s Sanctuary in time.

Maybe next year will be better. I’ll have more work to do, so I doubt it, but maybe. Who knows. Maybe.

Exams are coming up, so I doubt I’ll be working on the story in the next two weeks, but after that, I’ll likely resume writing and posting here.

Day 25-something - Wow, I’m still here?

And I even wrote a little today. Nothing world-shaking, but more than 1k. Sure, I’ll never make it for Nov. 30. But maybe I’ll be able to add a complete new chapter to the story in a few days. Maybe.

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Phew…

I’m afraid I’m really through with NaNo this year. I’ve been too busy, and then too tired, to even write a word in the past two days. I guess this says it all.

Regardless, I’m wondering if I shouldn’t rewrite everything from scratch later on. I can’t decide. I envisioned the story told at the first person, because it seemed logical at the time, but the more I was writing it, the more it started to feel somewhat wrong. I’m not sure if this is a right impression though, or if it’s unconscious laziness on my part (I seldom write first person POV, so of course this was going to be harder!). Maybe I could achieve the same effects with a limited thrid person POV, and by still keeping one viewpoint character, that is. Maybe.

Heck, I’m too tired to properly think of these things now anyway. I’ll see once the exams are over.

Tags: NaNoWriMo | novel | over yonder | writing

Day 20

Hmm. At least I avoided the humiliation of writing less than 1,000 words today. And I didn’t think that officially giving up was just so hard - someday, my pride will kill me, I guess!

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Day 19 - Blah

I finally passed the 20k words. I guess I won’t go much further though. There’s too much going on right now for me to still have time to write and, above all, desire and commitment. I think I can do something nice with that story, but right now, I’m not doing it, really. Because I can’t. I just can’t.

I’ll go on writing it during November if I find some of that elusive time and passion back, but with 30k words to go in 10 days, and the exams looming ahead, I very much doubt I’ll make it in time to win NaNo. I will go on writing it, though. There’s no doubt about that. I just can’ tell now when I finish it.

And updates here are still to be expected anyway!

Tags: NaNoWriMo | novel | over yonder | writing | word count