Horns of Dilemma

[muninnhuginn]

6000 words into a short story, which is going--

• better than we could have expected
  
• places we hadn't thought of
  
• to take at least another day to finish a first draft.

Waiting for the off is the NaNoWriMo opus.

What do we do? Sacrifice some of the time for the latter in order to finish the former, knowing that the chances of our completing 50k words in a month are slim without additional complications. Drop the short story and hope to pick it up in December, having failed to finish the novel. Aaaaaargh!

The ravens head for bed, with at least 2k words written today.

Comments

I agree with pickledginger

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's the gift of creativity, maybe it's your mind finding a displacement activity to stop you doing the 50k words, in either case you're being creative so go for it.

NaNoWriMo is designed primarily to get wannabe writers into the habit of writing ... if you write 6,000 words of short story, while it isn't part of a "novel" it is still accomplished writing and so I think a hearty pat on the back and keep going ...

Displacement Activity?

[muninnhuginn]

Never in a thousand years. And so, already today, we've baked a cake. (OK we have an excuse, two here now plus the friends coming round to tea later).

Displacement isn't an activity is a whole modus vivendi.

(Actually we think the short story is more "writing accomplished" than "accomplished writing" at present.)