And you're not supposed to not doubt me! You're supposed to go, "A 50,000 word novel in a month!? Dude, there are 5-line emails that have been on your plate since July that you haven't gotten done!" (which is true) and I'm supposed to go, "Oh yeah? I bet you fifty bucks I make it to 50,000 words!" and you're supposed to go, "You're on, mofo!" and then when the going inevitably gets tough in November I think of all the things I want to spend that $50 on, grit my teeth, and grind out those words.
I wrote a novel once. It was about a whaling ship captain and his need to seek revenge against the sperm whale that took his leg. I called it "The guy and the whale that ate his leg."
Unfortunately it was never published because I apparently just glued a new title page on Moby Dick.
The official NaNoWriMo book is entitled "No Plot? No problem!" No ideas? Sheer panic will provide! Write too slowly? Well, you need to crank out over 1600 words a day for the next month, so you'd better stop agonizing about it! Already absurdly busy? 1600 words only takes like an hour and a half to type. Surely you can find some downtime? You can really only put in so much time a day looking for work. Believe me, I know. And the more pressure to fill those precious extra hours with thousands of words, the less likely you are to work at a less than frantic pace!
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And you're not supposed to not doubt me! You're supposed to go, "A 50,000 word novel in a month!? Dude, there are 5-line emails that have been on your plate since July that you haven't gotten done!" (which is true) and I'm supposed to go, "Oh yeah? I bet you fifty bucks I make it to 50,000 words!" and you're supposed to go, "You're on, mofo!" and then when the going inevitably gets tough in November I think of all the things I want to spend that $50 on, grit my teeth, and grind out those words.
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Unfortunately it was never published because I apparently just glued a new title page on Moby Dick.
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