'Fessing Up
November 9th, 2002 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shiredancerHello, my name is Sally, and I have a confession to make. I, um, joined NaNoWriMo too. The Halloween spirits possessed me and made me do it at the eleventh hour. I have even (gulp) attended a local meeting.
What got me was that they said, in their write-up online, that I could write 50,000 words of pure crap, and nobody would ever have to read it. And I thought, "Pure crap? I think I could do that. Maybe not 50,000 words' worth, but pure crap... yeah." I think I've written 100 words of pure crap so far but I don't know, because it's not typed yet. But if this would get me to write even 10 minutes a day (and it did, for the first two days anyway), then I'm already ahead of what I wrote in September, or any month during these last many years. I would consider this exercise a smashing success if I got, say, a single decent paragraph culled from the morass of pure crap that I'll be writing. A novel? Oh, definitely not. A story? Most unlikely. A simple paragraph... well, I'll see. Now, if I can just get back to those 10 minutes a day... I'll be happy.
I thought it would at least give me a chance to use their official icon, but (sob) it's not the right dimensions. Pffffttt! [Edited to add: Daisy dear, I shamelessly ripped off your properly-sized NaNo icon! Do you mind??? *Smooches*]
What got me was that they said, in their write-up online, that I could write 50,000 words of pure crap, and nobody would ever have to read it. And I thought, "Pure crap? I think I could do that. Maybe not 50,000 words' worth, but pure crap... yeah." I think I've written 100 words of pure crap so far but I don't know, because it's not typed yet. But if this would get me to write even 10 minutes a day (and it did, for the first two days anyway), then I'm already ahead of what I wrote in September, or any month during these last many years. I would consider this exercise a smashing success if I got, say, a single decent paragraph culled from the morass of pure crap that I'll be writing. A novel? Oh, definitely not. A story? Most unlikely. A simple paragraph... well, I'll see. Now, if I can just get back to those 10 minutes a day... I'll be happy.
I thought it would at least give me a chance to use their official icon, but (sob) it's not the right dimensions. Pffffttt! [Edited to add: Daisy dear, I shamelessly ripped off your properly-sized NaNo icon! Do you mind??? *Smooches*]
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Go Sally!
Date: November 10th, 2002 09:30 am (UTC)Re: Go Sally!
Date: November 10th, 2002 09:58 pm (UTC)