The place my head is in, I could probably use NaNo to write this short story I promised. But deadlines and I are unmixy things, I get stubborn and think I'm proving something to the universe by saying, "I'm not going to get it done, and you can't make me!"

It is not helpful when you have authority issues with the inside of your own head.

Hee hee! I love the email I got from NaNoWriMo, especially this part:

leave ugly prose and poorly written passages on the page to be cleaned up later. Your inner editor will be very grumpy about this, but your inner editor is a nitpicky jerk who foolishly believes that it is possible to write a brilliant first draft if you write it slowly enough.

I *have* written brilliant first drafts. But that is more like something working through me than my great efforts. You can't predict that.

I can imagine writing a brilliant first draft of a poem, maybe a short story, but cranking out a perfect 175 page novel in one go is incomprehensible to me.

No, probably not likely. I was just talking about reviews and such.

I'm toying with the idea of attempting NaNoWriMo. Or maybe it's toying with me. I have an idea for a story, anyway. Except now I'm invested in it, so I don't know if I can write it without caring if it's good or not.

Go for it! Join us! One of us! One of us!

You really do have to turn off the little squeaky mice and just concentrate on typing or you'll never win. Not that I have won. I think I got to 100 pages last time I tried. 100 very crappy pages iirc.

Crank it out and edit and polish later, Zenkitty. I'm using it as a way to get the plot all worked out, almost a really really detailed outline.

That's exactly what my problem is - this would have to be a training exercise in It's Good Enough Dummy Stop Editing Now And Just Write. I can't stop editing long enough to write anything.

It was AmyLiz who had something to do with Big, Spankable Asses, right? Have y'all seen this? [link]