NaNoWriMo – not for me
Well, NaNo blew my blogging out of the water. I quickly fell behind on my novel, and didn't feel like I should write blog posts when I didn't feel like working on the novel.
My big problem was that I fell behind, and the further behind I got, the more intimidating and overwhelming the idea of striving to complete it by December became. So with nobody cheering me on, I didn't have much incentive to not slack off.
Doing this under a tight deadline just isn't for me. I need to find a way to establish a writing habit that isn't driven by anxiety or self-imposed pressure. (I've never been good with self-imposed deadlines, and I've certainly never been good at tricking myself into believing that something matters when it really doesn't.)
So I've still got this novel, and I think it has the makings of a reasonably good story. I plan to finish it, but I have to find a way to finish it on my own terms.