Tie my hands behind my back!

[girlyswot]

So, I seem to have signed up for yuletide.  I think this is okay.  One fic due by Christmas.  And there are some really fun fandoms that I've offered to write in.  I've asked for Antonia Forest or Georgette Heyer.  *grins*  This could be a fun Christmas present.

BUT it is now getting worryingly close to NaNoWriMo time of year.  I am NOT signing up.  That way madness lies.  I'm doing way too many courses this semester as it is.  Just because I am not going to the big conference in San Diego, thus freeing up, ooh, three days in November, does NOT mean it will be okay to write 50,000 words that month.

You are all my witnesses and I trust you to hold me accountable to this.

Comments

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

That's funny. I've been writing fanfic for at least 20 years. It was only a couple of years ago that I realised other people did this too and that it was called fanfic!!

[amamama.livejournal.com]

Writing stories has always been fun, sometimes basing them on books sometimes Rl, sometimes pure imagination. Fanfic was a totally foreign concept, and I always thought I was the only one making up stories for fun. I've never written them though - we weren't allowed to tell stories in our high school assignments, it was all analyzes of some kind. Story telling was for kids. *shakes head* Amazing what narrowminded teachers can do... Stripping me of any writing joy was part of it, but I'm slowly finding my way back.

[dogstar101.livejournal.com]

Amazing what narrowminded teachers can do... Stripping me of any writing joy was part of it, but I'm slowly finding my way back

Hey - you too? *kicks narrowminded teachers*

Someone was trying to get me to do nanowrimo but I have the same problem as you Ros - "I don't spend enough time thinking about what I write, not that I spend too much."

*rueful nod*