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Originally Posted by montsnmags
Umm...dmon65, are you...are you...me?
I have signed up for NaNoWriMo this year...I don't know if I'll complete it. I know the sense of wanting to write, and not doing it because I want everything to be perfect, is stopping me from even starting. I also know that NaNoWriMo's approach of "Just write. You don't have to publish. You don't have to show anyone. It doesn't matter if it's complete crap. JUST WRITE! Get something on "paper"!" means that I can just do it, with the only pressure being the number of words every day.
I know I am going to write crap. There's even a chance I'll bury the result so deep, technically and mentally, that you won't be able to find it with a sophisticated turd-detector or a turn-it-up-to-11-MRI. I'm okay with that. I've lost nothing by trying, and gained a lot by it - broken through that first, real writer's block that stops you even starting.
I'm a 39yo, ex-IT, never-written-anything-before absurdist with delusions that he wants to be a writer when he grows up. I'll admire you for starting, if you admire me for it. That'll surely poke any self-humiliation in the eye with a sharp pen (well, okay, sharpened-edge-of-keyboard). Let's not write the next great novel. Let's try write our own firsts, and be happy that we'd tried (and maybe even completed!).
Cheers,
Marc
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First, foremost and completely heart-felt:
Thank You Marc.
I really appreciate all the other encouragement offered from everyone else, I have signed up and will attempt this insanely daunting task. I'll let you know when to send the cookies Jaxx! Vivaldi, the wagging tail is noted and and truly got a big grin here. And nomesque, you offering up your first attempt for perusing is amazingly appreciated! I will be reading it, bottom-up, very soon! Thank you all.
Montsnmags I certainly hope (for your sake) you're not me, or the other way around! But there are so many similarities that your words cored me. Obviously you do understand all my misgivings and pretty much debunked them all. The line about "when you grow up" has been said here so often I thought you had been listening in! By the way, I've got you by 4 years and it still hasn't happened, I think you've got some time!
Along with my thanks, you definitely have my admiration!
Let's do this! Possible crash-and-burn be damned (feared, but damned anyway)!
Darrell