Today marks the last day of July Camp NaNo as it is the 31st of the month. July is the luckier camp month since you get that extra day compared to 30 in April and November for the real deal.
My goal for this camp was 25k, and while it looks like I'm going to fall short, I got pretty close. When it comes to NaNo, whatever you write is words and therefore counts. So the word count I did achieve this month is about 60% novel and 40% blog posts (since some of them were longer than what I might have written in my novel for that day).
After the first day this month that I didn't do any writing, I reminded myself it wasn't the real NaNo, and that camps are just a warm up, nothing to stress over too much. And so, I ended up skipping a day here and there, that would be why I'm not reaching the goal.
Also, I've had other things going on and other hobbies to steal my time. My hyperfixation problem meant I spent one week being a little unproductive because I was too focused on one thing to do much else. Welcome to my life.
Camp NaNo is over, so I'm no longer going to be keeping track of my word count, but I think that will take a little pressure off. My friend, the one also writing a novel, and I are trying to get to the library regularly to do writing. It helps to be outside with my laptop and having no choice but to get some work done. When I'm at home, there are too many other things that might pull me away.
These next few weeks are going to be a bit busy, I've got a number of gatherings with family and friends to do, my three zero birthday is next week and my family is all over the country, meaning I've got things going on at different times. I don't feel a week from 30, I barely feel late 20s, I think it's because mentally, I'm a kid. Not literally, just that feeling as an adult where you act like a kid because you miss being one sometimes. Adulting is hard.
Since I have now just started whining about life, I think it's time to end this entry.
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