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Well, I failed NaNoWriMo this year. I'm about half way there, probably not even, and tomorrow and the day after I'm going to be somewhere without any access to the internet, so I decided to "put down my pen", or rather, literally, to save and close out of the word document in which I was typing.

Why did I fail? What's so different from the last years?

Well, I might have had a job last November, but I don't really remember. I know I had a job last year, but I'm not sure if I had one in november. However, this is different.

Reason 1: For my job this year, I have to get up at 3:30 AM, and then I go somewhere without internet where I nap/wait around until I head off to work at about 3:35-9:00 AM. When I get to my job, I wait to work, and then I wait around until the evening to finally go home, so for a good chunk of my day, about five days out of the week usually, I have had no access to my laptop.

Reason 2: Video Games. Even though knowing that I had a novel to write, and a short time to write it, I still obsessed over Final Fantasy video games. When I got bored with one, I began to play another. I also got obsessed with an MMORPG as well.

Reason 3: Couldn't Make up my Mind. I started to work on a new story for an old novel, and then about half way through the month, I decided to scrap that and go back to working on the old novel instead, and I decided that instead of cheating, I would neither use what I had written for the scrapped novel, nor use what I had already written before November for the other novel.

Reason 4: Gave up.

Believe it or not, there's a chance that if I kept typing non stop until around midnight tonight, I might actually be able to get my word count in, but I'm just not feeling it. I don't like how the rushed novel's going anyway.

Reason 5: My own fault. It really was my own fault. I guess I haven't been motivated enough, and I've spent too much time goofing off.



HOWEVER: I do intend to keep writing novels and short stories, even though I failed at NaNoWriMo this year.

Well, how did everyone else do?

Hm, in addition, I kind of feel mixed feelings about failing. I know had I put my mind to it and had I just worked on the one novel to begin with (I think I may have had a feeling that I should have), then I would have won probably a week ago, so it's really my own fault. I have a sense of failure and patheticness looming about me, but I also feel kind of free to work on whatever writings I want, whenever I want now. Hm...

Aha, I'd be blessed if I could even manage to sell to Tokyopop >>, which would probably still be very difficult, XD.

Oh no. I hope your wrist gets better soon, if it hasn't already healed. If it has, I hope it's healed well.

At least you've got a good excuse though.

Congradulations! At least someone made it ^^.

I finished. Got my 50k, but I was driving everyone crazy with it... I took my laptop everywhere and I guess no job or school yet helped me out. I need to still go through and edit pieces of it. But even if I hadn't finished on time, I would've continued writing. I simply wanted to write a complete novel, I guess finishing in the time was lucky.