saxikath | Who am I kidding?

Let's just stop a minute here and look at my November.

I'm working full-time in-house on a couple different projects, and will be for at least the next couple of weeks. One project had me in the office on Saturday.
I have two other outside freelance editing jobs to do.
I'm in a show that goes up the weekend before Thanksgiving, for which, among other things, I need to buy or make some costume pieces. (And for which I have rehearsals twice a week, until production week when it'll be basically every night.)
I have handbell rehearsal every week.
I'm playing piano for rehearsals for another show once a week.
The last Legends event of the season is this coming weekend, and I have some things I need to do before then.
My mother's visiting around Thanksgiving.
I desperately need to get back to the gym.
Oh, yeah, and I'm getting sick. I've been coughing since yesterday, and my voice is a mess.

And I thought I was going to write 1700 words a day of a novel on top of this? What was I thinking?? It's true that, as my mother once said, multitasking and I have always been synonymous, but even I have limits.

I still think Finding Danny is a good idea for a story, but I'm not at all convinced it's going to get written this month. *sigh*

I don't think I'm just being my lazy, depressive self with this. I'm looking at my upcoming weeks and wondering how I'm going to get done everything I need to do, never mind adding NaNoWriMo to the mix.

Any advice?

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Yeah, I'd suggest you stop trying to be synonymous--words are good at it, but it's not the sort of thing that comes naturally to actual people.

(And, you know, what they said above.) I'm actually mildly curious: is "writing a 5000 word outline" contrary to the spirit of NaNoWriMo? It seems like everyone I know who's doing it is taking the approach "write the next N words each day until it's done" as opposed to, say, the more typical approaches to writing a novel.

Who am I kidding?

From the linguist/nitpicker