Sooooo... Nano

[athersgeo]

When write off virtually two weeks of your given time period you do, succeed with the project, you won't.

Or, to put it into English (rather than pseudo Yoda): Unless I have a miraculous weekend this weekend (and let it go on record that I have, in the past written upwards of 20,000 words in a weekend), there isn't a hope in all heck of me getting Nano done to time.

I currently stand at 2000 words, or there abouts (erring on the side of under rather than over). If I can have one of those aforementioned miracle weekends, I can probably jump that to somewhere near 30,000 and more or less get myself back on track. If not...well, the story will be written, but it'll be done a heck of a lot slower!

In other news, I'm still periodically hacking up the proverbial lung and still very, very tired, but most of the other symptoms have gone, so I am on the mend. Seeing as I can't currently get up a flight of stairs without wheezing like a badly maintained steam engine, I'm not umpiring on the morrow.

Unfortunately, I am still down to umpire a week tomorrow - which means, almost certainly, me NOT being able to go to Oxford for the Gather there. As it's almost certainly going to be the last match I umpire, I don't really want to cancel it, particularly having cancelled for this particular team twice already. So I shall have to settle for the Christmas party gather instead.

Comments

[katherine-b.livejournal.com]

*huggles* I know, it's a pain, isn't it? I'd like to have done more, too, but real life just got in the way. *brings chocolate as consolation*

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

*hugs back* Oooh - chocolate! :)

I'm not, quite, ready to throw in the towel yet. I still think that I can catch myself up - and I HATE to fail at projects I've set myself...so we'll see.

[katherine-b.livejournal.com]

Good for you! I have definitely given up because I don't want to stress myself out about it. I have enough to stress me as it is! 0_0

[xtotalinsanity.livejournal.com]

I didn't get much further than 7000 words for Nano - RL got in the way too much! *hugs* I hope you feel better soon

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Right now, 7000 words would be an improvement! Still; I'm not, quite, ready to quit yet. I've done some amazing amounts of writing in a weekend, so I *can* catch up, and I hate failing at stuff I've set myself.

So we'll see...

[xtotalinsanity.livejournal.com]

Huzzah, Ray - you can do it! *gets out pom-poms* This'll have been my second year not able to finish Nano - but I didn't quite realise how busy I would be this month!

Glad to see you're not quitting, though =)

[carolynp.livejournal.com]

Your NaNo seems about on a par with mine, I rather think mine is still under 3000 words. Like you I am saying the story will be written, at some point. Not in that time though!

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

I haven't yet thrown the towel in on the timescale - with an unexpectedly clear weekend ahead of me and the knowledge that I've done 20,000 word weekends before, I still have this faint hope of getting it done.

And there's this perverse streak in me that says I won't have given the timescale up at the end of the weekend...

I must want my head read.

[b-liz.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Coming to this rather late, so hope you got lots done over the weekend, your cough has cleared up and you're feeling better.

Shame about the Oxford Gather though :(

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Sadly; I got very little done over the weekend and the cough is still persistantly making me sound like I'm only two steps away from keeling over.

To the point where I've just called off the umpiring this weekend.

Which means, if I can start sounding even a wee bit more healthy (and assuming that we're not all shivering under 2 foot of snow!), Oxford may be back on.

So every cloud has some semblance of a silver lining. Somewhere.