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  Yup, fifteen hundred words a day is about fourteen hundred a day too many

I'm begining to think that writing 50,000 fictitious words [1] is probably
the only way I'll ever complete a novel during National Novel Writing Month
[2].

Spring [3] and I went to a local meetup of fellow Nonowrimoers in Palm Beach
County [4], which clarified my thoughts about Nanowrimo—basically, I'm not up
to the task [5]. I just don't have the headspace for fictional writing, nor
even non-fictional writing about a fictional subject.

Part of that is lack of discipline; on remaining focused on finishing a task
when I've become bored of it, or I find it too difficult and wander off on
some other project. Another part is the aformentioned headspace. It's not
that I lack ideas—I have plenty of ideas. I just lack the ability to write
more than a few hundred words about any of them.

And it certainly didn't help matters that the atmosphere of the meetup was
not conducive to writing—what with having to block out the loud conversations
about Harry Potter and classroom hijinks.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/11/01.1
[2] http://www.nanowrimo.org/
[3] http://www.springdew.com/
[4] http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1029830
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/11/01.1

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