You know you’re a bit groggy from NaNoWriMo when…

/ Aimee Easterling

…you refresh your own stats rather than those of your writing buddies. Perhaps I was trying to figure out how much I’d written in my sleep?

Sadly, no matter how many times I hit refresh, my word count remained the same. Guess I’d better go fix that….

4 thoughts on “You know you’re a bit groggy from NaNoWriMo when…”

  1. I’m so dumb about NaNoWriMo, I don’t even know what that means, exactly. 😦 If I ever have a November when I’m not writing and editing frantically, I’m going to give it a try, I swear.

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    • One of the fun things about NaNoWriMo that I discovered this year is that, if you have writing buddies who are also participating, the website makes it easy to compete on word count. You can update your word count every day, and since the buddy I most often race with writes at night while I write in the morning, I’m usually ahead when I go to bed and she’s usually ahead when I wake up. It definitely spurs me on when I might otherwise have taken a day off!

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  2. Ha! Friendly competition definitely helps. I’ve had writing buddies like that too (except the other way around–I’m usually the night writer).

    This year I’m sitting at, oh, less than 15k on the 20th of November, so. May not even make it to 20k. I don’t mind. After eleven years, I hate to say it, but… I might be getting kind of sick of NaNo. My heart just wasn’t much in it this year. But, it looks like next year it may actually coincide with a first draft on my calendar, so I’ll probably be back in the saddle again.

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    • Yeah, I’m not sure I’d want to do this every year. Right now, if I weren’t doing NaNoWriMo, I’d probably take a little break. On the other hand, I’ve noticed that when I take breaks in the midst of writing the first draft of a novel, I then end up wasting lots of time (and emotional energy) thinking that the book isn’t worth finishing. So there’s definitely a benefit to writing straight through for me!

      I’m amazed by people who have their writing plans scheduled a year in advance. How can you know which book you’ll want to be writing next November?!

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