wtf?

[summer_sparrow]

Ok, so: I hate NaNo. I don't write that way, it's caused me nothing but stress every time I tried.

I'm also still pretty annoyed that I got told to my face that I was "cheating" simply for trying to explain why some people don't consider writing beforehand cheating at all.

(If you don't count the words, it doesn't count. That's my opinion, it doesn't make a thief and a liar, it doesn't mean I cheat on tests, and it pissed me off that those things were said.)

So why on earth am I, two days to November, with Coronet, Mists/Cynagua, and my birthday coming up, with no plot, having not felt like writing in almost two months, why am I thinking "I should NaNo this year."

Wtbloodyf. And on a day when I'm stressed and tired anyway. I do not understand.

Comments

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

I think it depends on whether your goal is to write a novel in a month or to write 50,000 words of a novel in a month. For people who subscribe to the former, writing beforehand is cheating. For people who don't, as long as you don't count pre-November words it's fine.