Overnight Writing Session
November 22nd 2009 23:41
So I'm in a bit of a... state... at the moment. But that's not what I'm here to talk about, those are my own personal problems. Let's just say life sucks, and once again, without fail, the end of November is sucking.
All right.
So in Toronto, we have write-ins... and we have an overnight write-in. Every year. Similar to the Night Of Writing Dangerously Write-A-Thon in San Fran that the official Nanowrimo team has started, it's an all night writing session where people hang out and write and it's generally a big bundle of happy people.
I went to my first overnight writing session last night.
It was great. I got to see all the Nanoers that I've come to know and love, spend time with them, meet a few new people, and I got a lot done-I wrote 15, 000 or thereabouts words at the overnighter and I am now sitting at 210K and change.
I can't tell you how glad I am that I made it, and I can't begin to describe how much fun I had there. It was just great times. Most of the people started to have major crashes (caffeine or not) between three thirty and four thirty in the morning, but, being the night person that I am, I was going all night quite happily.
You probably don't have an overnight writing session in your area-but maybe you and some fellow Nanoers can do an online overnight writing session next weekend. It's a great idea and it will spur you on like nothing else... I'm really glad that a friend of mine brought his old laptop for me to use, I'm incredibly happy that I was there, and I'm already excited for next year's-and I will find a way to get there!
Wherever you are, don't worry. I'm nowhere near where I wanted to be right now. This year Nano has been really hard for a lot of people-and I don't necessarily mean it's been hard to hit 50, 000, but a lot of people are struggling to reach their individual word count goals-some people who have never struggled before. But keep going, hang in there, and know that you can accomplish something great this month, even if you feel like all you've been doing is writing crap.
Good luck with your word counts and happy writing.
Thanks for reading,
~Dianna
All right.
So in Toronto, we have write-ins... and we have an overnight write-in. Every year. Similar to the Night Of Writing Dangerously Write-A-Thon in San Fran that the official Nanowrimo team has started, it's an all night writing session where people hang out and write and it's generally a big bundle of happy people.
I went to my first overnight writing session last night.
It was great. I got to see all the Nanoers that I've come to know and love, spend time with them, meet a few new people, and I got a lot done-I wrote 15, 000 or thereabouts words at the overnighter and I am now sitting at 210K and change.
I can't tell you how glad I am that I made it, and I can't begin to describe how much fun I had there. It was just great times. Most of the people started to have major crashes (caffeine or not) between three thirty and four thirty in the morning, but, being the night person that I am, I was going all night quite happily.
You probably don't have an overnight writing session in your area-but maybe you and some fellow Nanoers can do an online overnight writing session next weekend. It's a great idea and it will spur you on like nothing else... I'm really glad that a friend of mine brought his old laptop for me to use, I'm incredibly happy that I was there, and I'm already excited for next year's-and I will find a way to get there!
Wherever you are, don't worry. I'm nowhere near where I wanted to be right now. This year Nano has been really hard for a lot of people-and I don't necessarily mean it's been hard to hit 50, 000, but a lot of people are struggling to reach their individual word count goals-some people who have never struggled before. But keep going, hang in there, and know that you can accomplish something great this month, even if you feel like all you've been doing is writing crap.
Good luck with your word counts and happy writing.
Thanks for reading,
~Dianna
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