Due to having my, err, misconceptions brought to light, I'm posting this here. (In other words, I got my ass kicked by t! and the Tough Love Muse, not necessarily in that order, although in retrospect it was a Good Thing™, since it put some things into perspective).
So, yeah. Onto the actual topic. I have decided to change my personal goal for NaNoWriMo. Things aren't working out quite the way I'd hoped, and so, in order to minimize the amount of stressing out I'm going to be doing on this, I'm simply going to take the same goal the Ancient and Nameless Mackayhotep had last year, namely, the goal is simply to do better this year than I did last year. If all goes well, that means 50,000 words. If not, well, it'll still be an improvement.
In other related news, the novel refuses to behave itself. It keeps insisting on going off on tangents in my head, thus not letting me advance at all. Very irritating. Am going to try to beat it into submission this week.
So, yeah. Onto the actual topic. I have decided to change my personal goal for NaNoWriMo. Things aren't working out quite the way I'd hoped, and so, in order to minimize the amount of stressing out I'm going to be doing on this, I'm simply going to take the same goal the Ancient and Nameless Mackayhotep had last year, namely, the goal is simply to do better this year than I did last year. If all goes well, that means 50,000 words. If not, well, it'll still be an improvement.
In other related news, the novel refuses to behave itself. It keeps insisting on going off on tangents in my head, thus not letting me advance at all. Very irritating. Am going to try to beat it into submission this week.