What I've Been Up To

Associated Content Writer
http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/662956/theresa_seniawati.html

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Aside from taking the NaNoWriMo challenge, which will need a special willpower to pull, I have been writing articles in Associated Content. It won't help paying the mortgage, and at the rate I'm at now, I would have to produce a hundred of articles in order to earn a meal.

But what it's giving me is a finish line and incentive, and that's what my writer mind currently needs. A carrot in a stick in front of my nose.

NaNoWriMo does that too, actually. It has a finish line, November 30th and 50,000 word count. It has a carrot too, CreateSpace, a free proof copy of the completed NaNoWriMo manuscript. But, producing 1,667 words per day, with a debt of 13,667 words that I still need to write? The time constraint alone automatically overrides the privilege to edit the work, and simply, the writer's perfectionist mind won't allow that. So I'm not sure if that's really going to work for me.

Sigh. The writer's mind is indeed at a procrastinating state right now.

NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo
November 2009
(http://www.nanowrimo.org/)
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This is my first year joining the NaNoWriMo, stands for National Novel Writing Month, for which I'm very excited about! :)

The annual challenge of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50,000 word novel in a 30-day span, every year in November from November 1 - November 30. The main keys are spontaneity and quantity, not necessarily of laborious thoughts and quality.

I was at 972 word count telling the experience of an extended family on their Christmas vacation and something awful was about to happen to them when I decided to write on an entirely different subject. I'm at 288 word count now, while I was supposed to be at 11,666.67 mark on the word count today. Aaarrgh!

On a random thought, how many blogs are the maximum that a person should be allowed to own, do you think?

It is human nature to wanting to be heard, and conveniently, creating a blog allows this to be easily achieved. But do you really have to create five blogs??

Well ... I do. But keeping up with them is an entirely different subject matter.