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But it's not like that. At least, that's not how my brain sees it.
I'm one of life's worriers. I don't mean that I necessarily worry over everything. Far from it. But I do worry over such stupid bloody things.
Do people who have to get up at 4am for work REALLY get plenty of sleep? Is it true that we are ALL only ever 2 metres away from a rat? Do we REALLY swallow 6 spiders in our sleep in a life time? Do our feet REALLY produce about a pint of sweat a day and if so, WHERE does that sweat go? What the hell is The Boyfriend going to break next? (It was the curtain rail yesterday), and so on...
Anyway, back to NaNo, or 'not NaNo'.
Lots of my blogging/writing friends ARE doing NaNo this year and I'm worrying because I feel left out. Yes, I know that sounds silly and childish but I don't think(?) I mean it that way.
Reading what they've written so far on Twitter and on their blogs makes me worry that I'm not 'up to it'; that they are all so much better writers than me. I was going to take part this year but I'm massively into my editing (and also trying to find some paid employment which is time consuming) so I chose not to.
But that just makes me feel like I'm somehow weak and unable to cope. THEY are probably into editing, writing novels, writing poetry, working full-time, have 15 children each, feed the homeless 5 times a week, walk 19 dogs, muck out 12 horses daily, home-school their 15 kids, take on extra bar work in the evenings, run a drop-in centre for the bewildered from home and ALL look like Claudia bloody Schiffer.
So if YOU are doing NaNo, I wish you well... but please stop being so bloody organised because it's making me feel insecure!
Wow, thanks for the laugh. I hope you meant some of that to be funny. :) I'm not doing NaNo either, because I am in the middle of my WIP and don't want to stop, plus I don't have time. We do what we can. I'm at a little over 26,000 words so if I make it to 50,000 will that count? Maybe you could edit 50,000 words. ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm not (doing NaNo that is)
ReplyDeleteHuh! You should worry - I'm struggling to write my own damn blog (thinking of giving it up for a bit) and I DON'T DO ANYTHING ELSE. Well apart from work all day and childmind all night.
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't look like Claudia S either (luckily).
Jessica ~ I like your thinking!
ReplyDeleteAl ~ I am (pleased that is).
Martin ~ Noooooooo! Don't give up blogging. I don't visit as often as I'd like (too many blogs to follow - I've spread myself a bit thin) but I do enjoy reading yours.
Luckily, indeed.
Yep that's me. I do all those things. NOT! I'm not doing NANO this year either. I am writing but I just have so many other projects (including editing) that I wouldn't be able to focus on writing a 50,000 word novel. Don't feel bad.
ReplyDeleteI'm doing NaNo this year, but I think I sound more organised on paper, than I actually am. ;)
ReplyDeleteClarissa ~ I shall try not to knowing I'm in good company!
ReplyDeleteLynda ~ Ha ha! I like the sound of that.
No Nano for me either. I'm lucky if I get two hours a day to work on my story. I need to spend my time on getting that done first.
ReplyDeleteI'm not doing NaNo either, but I have NaNo envy. I wish I had the time. Sometimes I think I might grab the laptop and go sit in a coffee shop and just soak up the NaNo spirit in the room while I work on my own edits.
ReplyDeleteKen ~ I'm glad I'm not alone.
ReplyDeleteKari Marie ~ That sounds like a very good idea!
I am doing NaNo and I've just started again - only seven days into the project. So that's 50,000 words in three weeks. Organised? You must be joking . . .
ReplyDeleteI'm doing NaNo, but I feel so wildly disorganized it's not even funny. ;) I'm not doing it traditionally--I'm using it to try to finish novels, so I'm bouncing between them and going "WHEEE WHAT AM I DOING!?!?" and my brain feels like a giant puddle of sleep-deprived mush.
ReplyDeleteDon't know if that makes you feel better. ;) But NaNoing or not NaNoing...I think a writer should just do or use whatever works for them. NaNo works for me in getting me to focus, maybe because so many of my friends do it every year, and focusing with other people is more...focusy? (I should stop typing now for all the sense I'm making. Or not making. I am going to soon be resorting to typing random buttons on the keyboard.)
jabblog ~ Are you nuts?! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteLaura ~ Thanks for that... it made me smile :)