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forsythThe one thing I've learned from Nanowrimo? It wasn't to write more, because I haven't been, but I learned this.
I need deadlines. I think it's not that uncommon an affliction among creative types, we'd all be happy to be puttering around with anything, especially the many and varied shiny distracting anythings of the Internet. But twice now, despite distractions, I've given myself a month to write 50,000 words, and done it. Neither of the stories actually finished, because, well, the deadline was past, I'd done it, who cared? I haven't even posted all the chapters over on DA.
So, it's the start of a new month. So, deadlines. I will, before February 10th, finish at least the first draft of an article for Pyramid that's been poking in my head a long while. That's my first deadline. And this is public, so I have to finish it, because I'm like that.
Not to mention all the other stuff I have to do before mid-March, when I quit my current job. Like, for one, find a new job. Heh.
I need deadlines. I think it's not that uncommon an affliction among creative types, we'd all be happy to be puttering around with anything, especially the many and varied shiny distracting anythings of the Internet. But twice now, despite distractions, I've given myself a month to write 50,000 words, and done it. Neither of the stories actually finished, because, well, the deadline was past, I'd done it, who cared? I haven't even posted all the chapters over on DA.
So, it's the start of a new month. So, deadlines. I will, before February 10th, finish at least the first draft of an article for Pyramid that's been poking in my head a long while. That's my first deadline. And this is public, so I have to finish it, because I'm like that.
Not to mention all the other stuff I have to do before mid-March, when I quit my current job. Like, for one, find a new job. Heh.
