Yzabel / August 14, 2005

50,000 words in one month of writing: doable or not? An impossible task to set myself to, or a very attainable goal?I say it’s a perfectly attainable goal. When I try to watch more closely my writing rythm, I realize that in one month, it’s really nothing impossible (to be honest, I’ve already done it more than once). Sure, I don’t do that every day, and regularly enough I’ll scrap out entire weeks of work because I’m not satisfied with it anymore. Regardless, NaNoWriMo, given my current cadence, is totally doable.I’m very tempted to try, just to see how writing with a deadline of this kind works for me. It’s nothing professional, it won’t bring me any prize or money, but I really couldn’t care more. When it comes to creative writing, I’ve never had to do with deadlines so far: technical documents is the only field I do have them, and these don’t demand the same kind of focus. Both “genres” are way too different from each other to be comparable.I don’t know which degree of involvment I’ll have in it, whether I’ll take an active part in their forums and the likes. I may however post excerpts and works-in-progress here. None of this will start before November, in any case. I like this game, and I’ll stick to its rules.nanowrimo, writing