I dropped out of NaNoWriMo again.

[betweensunandmoon]

Not because I got stuck like last time, but because forcing myself to write every day was making me hate what I was writing. So I'm taking a break.

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[igenlode]

I gather that one of the points of NaNoWriMo is to try to force encourage you to write every day without thinking much about what you are writing...

I've always said that I'll never do it, simply because I *don't* write two thousand words a day, and never have done. Well, not since I was in my twenties and had an awful lot of suppressed creativity to let out in one fell swoop.

I do force myself to write every day in the ordinary run of things, though -- well, when I'm in the middle of a story and want to reach the end of it, that is. I just don't get anything like two thousand words out of the exercise, or aim to do so.

(I am doing quite well with the drabbles and will almost certainly succeed in finishing the month -- for a grand total of 3,000 words! -- but even so that rapidly reached the stage where I wasn't even starting the day's drabble until after midnight, on the grounds that I could 'do it quickly' (which of course I can't). And like most NaNoWriMo players, I'm learning that planning in advance is more or less essential.)