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Reasons I am giving to myself for not participating in NaNoWriMo

So I just got around to catching up on 43folders, a site I don’t visit nearly often enough, and Merlin has a very interesting post about reasons we give for not starting. That inspired me to make a list of things I’m telling myself that are keeping me from participating in NaNoWriMo.

  1. You USED to be a good story-teller, when you were drunk. But remember? You can’t drink anymore. And staying drunk for a month would be quite a feat anyway.
  2. One of two things will happen: you won’t finish the book and everyone will realize you’re lazy and undisciplined or you WILL finish the book and everyone will realize you’re just a hack.
  3. You know what would be awesome? Staring at a computer screen for eight to 10 hours a day at work, then coming home and staring at a computer screen till you’ve written 1,700 words.
  4. You haven’t written anything longer than 2,500 words in almost a decade and never written more than 10,000 words. And that wasn’t fiction.
  5. Didn’t you already try and fail to produce a poetry cycle based on the life of your grandfather?
  6. Yeah, writing for hours each day will be GREAT for your marriage, what with the barely getting to spend time with Emily already as it is.

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I know these are excuses. If someone came up to me and said these were the reasons they weren’t doing something, I’d shake them by the shoulders till they regained their senses. But when coming from within, they sound less like excuses and more like really good reasons to skip writing and participate in No-shave November instead.

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