For all intents and purposes, I failed at my 2014 NaNoWriMo attempt. There, I had to say it. The most important thing I learnt (or rather had confirmed for myself) as a result of this experience was that it is an unrealistic expectation to come up with a coherent piece of 50,000-words-long work of fiction in a month without doing any planning . But here's another thing I learnt: no time is ever wasted writing. Every idea, every thought that goes through your head and ends up on paper, has a potential for something more. Many successful books have started as NaNo projects, after all. So, let's deconstruct my 'failure' (or was it really failure?) and make a lesson out of it. Back in 2014, when I decided I was going to do NaNo, it was an impulsive decision as well as an attempt at creative procrastination: at the time I was already deep in revisions on another project and was starting to query another novel I considered 'ready' for that stage of the writin...

Some thoughts on my NaNoWriMo 2014 experiences so far... I was under impression that November was supposed to start on Monday (yeah, sad time-keeping skills, I know...), so instead of getting my word count up during the past weekend I was working on one of my other projects (that is, I was doing one of the big 'No-Nos' of the NaNoWriMo - cheating on my NaNo novel with another novel.) So Monday comes and I realize I'm behind by 2 days already, so I quickly jump in, trying to catch up and all. NaNo is stressful , but in a good way, I guess, as it opens one's eyes to the greety sweaty bits of the writing process. Apparently, quite a few best-sellers out there have started out as NaNo projects (what comes to mind: WOOL ; THE NIGHT CIRCUS ; THE DARWIN ELEVATOR )... Glitches... Having trouble updating my word count - everything works so slowly or doesn't work at all via Chrome, so I start using Firefox again, just to get the NaNo website to work.  NaNo...