The last few posts I have tried haven’t published, even thought I’ve clicked “Publish.” It is vexing. Hopefully this one works.
NaNoWriMo has been unsuccessful. I will not give up. I have trouble sitting in front of my desk top writing for hours and hours and hours. My bum gets a little numb after a while. Numb bum. I giggle everytime.
So I’m going to try writing some of it by hand. Not all of it, but some of it. Just to really get some of this stuff down. I can carry my notebook with me and just start writing anytime. So far that is working better than anything else.
This morning, I had a cool moment. I picked up this bright pink binder with flowers from my office shelf and thought “this will be a good binder for NaNoWriMo, and as I’m putting the blank sheets in, I vividly remember being in Elementary school and putting blank note paper in a Lisa Frank Unicorn Binder to write a story that was nothing more than a cheap imitation of Beauty and the Beast (since I was only in elementary school, it was adorable, not sad)
How funny it is that twenty years later I’m doing the exact same thing. I felt like I was in two places and two different times at once. Kinda like a giant bell that vibrates when it’s ringing.
I don’t know about you, but when I was a young, I wanted to be a unicorn SO badly. A unicorn just like the Lisa Frank ones on my binder. I just thought it would be awesome to be a unicorn, just running around and being all magical…
Do you ever wonder what your 8 year old self would think about your now self?
Lia
/ November 16, 2009I loved Lisa Frank as a kid. And my 8-year-old self would probably be very mad at me for over-complicating my life. I was much less self-conscious and over-analytical as a kid. Oh, well. The trials of growing up.
Nanowrimo is proving troublesome for me, too, but we will persevere. Change your goal; you don’t have to work for 50K; just pick something manageable. My goal is just to write a story with an ending. (I’m still not doing so well, but baby steps are still something.)
missmccracken
/ November 16, 2009I think that’s exactly the same thing that I’m going to shoot for. Just to get the roughness out, and then to work on it all year.
geekhiker
/ November 16, 2009I’ve been known to hand-write posts before. It’s a heck of a lot easier than hiking to the Secret Spot with a laptop slung across my back.
As for when I was 8, I wish I were more like that kid back then then the guy I am now…
missmccracken
/ November 16, 2009Geekhiker, True, it sorta ruins the point to go out and unplug if you have your lappy with you.
What you need is a good game of freeze tag. That will make your inner 8 year old happy.