NaNoWriMo

[cjsmith]

I'm doing NaNo again this year. I'll limit my posting about my trials and tribulations to a specific filter, as I suspect many non-NaNo-ers wish *everyone* on LJ would do ;-).

If you want to be on it or want to be off it, holler. (layer, I gotcha covered.)

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[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Me, on, of course, if I'm not all ready!

I signed up for Nano. In order to do Nano, I have to write my 8 pages a day, AND translate 7 pages of mathematical French (into English, of course), every day. Assuming I finish my Cantor paper by Oct. 31. I dunnoo... God, it was so fun last year. But this dissertation takes priority..

Here I am, me me me, all about me.... Good luck to you in Nano 2005, Ceej!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You were on already -- probably 'cause you did NaNo in 2004.

I hear ya! I have two big square dance weekends in November every year, one of which is four days out of my writing schedule, and I have this (more than) full-time job, too. I know exactly what you mean. BUSY!

But hey, other people can do a helluva lot when they get their priorities figured out -- so you and I can too. Right? [channeling Yenta] Of COURSE right! :-)

Good luck to you too!

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is, last year I had the dissertation AND a full-time job, and I still did Nano. No job this year, and I still feel that I'm too busy. Well, I didn't get any work done on the diss last November, either, and I can't afford to fall behind by a whole month this year, not if I want to finish the diss this summer.

I'm going to try anyway. Fiction in English might be the perfect balance to mathematical French, you know?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It might limber up your brain a bit, on days when you aren't making headway on the French. If you can't afford to fall behind by a month, than I guess if you see your diss is falling behind you'll simply bail on NaNo. That makes sense. And you might as well give it a go, with that understanding of the priorities!