So, if any of you have seen Jiminy Cricket around, please send him my way. I need to find a star and dial up the Blue Fairy pronto.
My NaNo project is in critical condition. I have accepted that there is NO way I'm going to make 50k by the end of the month, but now I'm starting to wonder if I'm going to get to 25k. This doesn't depress me nearly as much as I thought it would. I guess the fact that it doesn't depress me, depresses me more. Not that that's dysfunctional or anything.
Truthfully, I haven't been putting a whole lot of effort into it. I know I'm capable of cranking out 2k a day, I just don't. Most days I have good excuses. The rest of the time I wonder if I'm fooling myself about writing as a profession. I keep thinking that I have more time. I'm only 22. There's no rush. I have years to try and get my books published. But I won't always be 22. And the years will probably sneak up on me (much like all of my excuses for not writing) and before I know it, I'll be middle aged and sitting on a pile of unread manuscripts. I can't let that happen.
It probably doesn't help that I've had a lot of excitement (and I don't mean the good kind) this year. Maybe once I figure out where I'm living and working and whether or not my body is falling apart, I'll have more energy to write.
In the meantime, there's always Netflix ;)
-Liz
Well, if it's any consolation, I didn't start writing until I was twice your age. You could fit a whole writing career or two into the years in between, so it's never too late to turn things around.
ReplyDeleteUmmm...of course, here I am sitting on a pile of unfinished manuscripts, so maybe I'm not a good example to follow.
I wrote lots for years and took a few months and even years off here and there as life demanded it. Sometimes you need to focus on you. Think of it as research. ;)
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