Don't stress out over NaNo
September 19th 2010 14:55
You signed up on the website, you read all sorts of advice and maybe you've started preparing for NaNoWriMo. And now you're panicking. It's all too much and you're not sure you'll be able to do this thing.
Don't worry. The most important thing about NaNo is that it's fun. If you put too much pressure on yourself before November has even begun, you won't enjoy it. You'll also find writing much harder. What't the worst that can happen? You may not write 50k words in a month. If you don't win, you're not going to be alone. In 2009, 32,178 of the 167,150 participants won, that's 19.25 percent.
There are many reasons why you might not finish NaNo with a 50k story under your belt. You won't know if you can write a somewhat coherent story of that length until you do it. Stressing out over it won't help, so relax. Look at NaNo as an adventure that, if it goes wrong, won't do you any harm. And the majority of people who don't write 50k still have a blast in November, anyway.
(This post was supposed to go up yesterday, sorry about the delay.)
Don't worry. The most important thing about NaNo is that it's fun. If you put too much pressure on yourself before November has even begun, you won't enjoy it. You'll also find writing much harder. What't the worst that can happen? You may not write 50k words in a month. If you don't win, you're not going to be alone. In 2009, 32,178 of the 167,150 participants won, that's 19.25 percent.
There are many reasons why you might not finish NaNo with a 50k story under your belt. You won't know if you can write a somewhat coherent story of that length until you do it. Stressing out over it won't help, so relax. Look at NaNo as an adventure that, if it goes wrong, won't do you any harm. And the majority of people who don't write 50k still have a blast in November, anyway.
(This post was supposed to go up yesterday, sorry about the delay.)
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