Who am I kidding?

[saxikath]

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?

Comments

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I must add that when I started hearing about NaNoWriMo (hereinafter to be pronounced "nano-rhyme-o"), I entertained the notion only long enough to think, "Gee, I suppose that *could* provide the kick in the butt I need... but on the other hand, no WAY is this November the month for it!"

If what you really want out of it is structure and community and motivation, more than the one-month-to-full-draft process experience... what say we start a writers' group? *After* Thanksgiving? :-)

[saxikath]

Now this, I could get into. :) Let's definitely talk more about this after Thanksgiving. (May have to wait till after mid-January... there's this Mystery Hunt thing... :) )

Seriously, thanks to everyone for all your suggestions. I'm glad my fellow Nano'ers don't think I'm a spineless wimp for getting scared only three days in.