HELLO! Any­way…

Novem­ber approaches and of course, I’ve been con­sid­er­ing NaNoW­riMo this year. I can’t believe it’s actu­ally been an entire year since the last time I attempted (then chose to step-back)  from it. I could take what­ever I felt last time and apply it and from the get-go, just stay away. How­ever that would be igno­rant; to myself, and the process that NaNo cre­ates in forc­ing you to pound out quan­tity vs. qual­ity — some­thing which I never attempt solely.

On the con-side, I could chose to con­tinue with my cur­rent man­u­script which still needs a good 30% of work. I could ‘get on with it’ as Edmund Black­ad­der might say, and just con­tinue with my head down until I’m done. This would obvi­ously help the word count and pro­gres­sion, but of late I have had a lit­tle slack­ness in try­ing hard to accom­plish ‘write-times’. Work and so on has con­tributed, but then when does it never?

Pros could come in the guise of giv­ing me an oppor­tu­nity to cre­ate some­thing new and fresh and give those juices a lit­tle swirl. It could get me back into the writ­ing game with­out feel­ing pres­sured to do so in a per­sonal way, but in the NaNo-way. I have a few ideas, and a few on the back of pre­vi­ous works which would help me get going. I feel like this would be a good time to also inject the impor­tance of writ­ing back into my life and help brush off some of those cob­webs I have let be spun dur­ing recesses between the Tele­vi­sion and reading.

Ulti­mately, I don’t know. I don’t want it to be a dis­trac­tion, but at the moment I don’t even have the –attrac­tion (does that even work?), so it’s not much to be afraid of. If I were going and going and going on my cur­rent book, then of course I would say NO to NaNo, but at the moment, I’m not. So I guess it’s a handy chance/excuse to play in another sand­box and give me a break from the expec­tant cre­ation of ‘Ran Red.

Update: I did not take part in NaNoW­riMo in the end. I had some time to write and so did, and in doing so I realised I did not to take flight with a new story and a new imag­i­na­tive quest.