Attempting the impossible…?
Happy middle of November to all my readers and writers!
You may not know this but I went on holiday for two weeks at the start of the month and had a great time… going to Australia when it’s UK winter? Recommended.
Coming back? Not so much!
That being said, I am happy to slip into Christmas mode now that I have nothing else on my social calendar for the rest of the year. Except for NaNoWriMo… let’s talk about that!
I have completed NaNo every year for the last 11 or 12 years, and this year I both decided to write a different type of book completely (new adult mystery), and go on holiday for the first two weeks of the damn month.
To be fair, it wasn’t something I would have done if my little sister wasn’t getting married, but I’m glad I did it. I did have the insane idea of writing whilst I was away, and I could have done it—I had nothing stopping me at all… except for my desire to write.
I hardly ever take breaks; even when I do go away for a little UK break (hi, I’ve not been on a proper holiday abroad in 10 years), I take my laptop with me and I work on something. So when I arrived in Australia I had grand plans to continue that habit, until I realised that I was ON HOLIDAY.
You forget, when you work for yourself, that YOU time is precious and necessary. It’s impossible to explain the desire to keep going if you aren’t one of those people. It’s not a grind, it’s an intense obsession to DO SOMETHING. I will also chalk it up to ADHD because I am 99% sure I am one of those millennials who, over the course of COVID, self-diagnosed in one of those social-media ‘ah-ha’ moments.
I digress.
When I was away I did not write at all! And it was lovely, to be frank. I even decided that, should I fail to complete NaNoWriMo this year, I would be OK with it.
Let me reiterate that I am, still, OK with this outcome, HOWEVER, I am going to attempt to catch up by writing roughly 4k words a day until I hit 50,000. Can I do it? Who knows! Will I try, of course! What do you take me for?!
So what do you think? Is this me attempting the impossible?
I suppose we will see!!
- Sam
