Translation :-D, NaNoWriMo :-(

[dianoram]

This has been one hell of a week - on Wednesday and Thursday I was up until 2am working on 2 translations for one bank. One was even fun with statistics and all. The second one was only 1.5 pages long but I worked on it forever and had to admit defeat in the end - it almost had me in tears. This head of one department wrote it in English but it was

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[teddyradiator]

Please don't feel bad about NaNo. I had the exact same thing happen last year. I was all geared up to do it, and got about 15K through it when, just, bam. Everything happened at once, and my inspiration nosedived and my Muse just put his hand up and said, "No. I never wanted you to do this in the first place, because you have other obligations."

It was so hard, and I just cried, feeling like I was a quitter. I know now that other things were in the works for me, so I just had to let it go. You'll feel better about it very soon, though, I promise.

[dianoram]

Thank you very much for your kind words! I do feel a bit better today. I guess it would have been worse had I started and then had to stop.

The translation is too important to me - this kind of thing could be keep me afloat if there is not enough work...

I will just have to try to settle with a much more achievable goal on this year's NaNo. :-)

[lennanightrun]

Don't despair or give up; just write what you can! Set yourself a shorter goal if you can--like 30k or 25k or 20k words--and you can still feel good about it. Man, I remember the year I did NaNoWriMo, and that 1666 word number drove me mad!

Best of luck :D

[dianoram]

You are not in it this year?

Thank you for the advice :-)- it really helped - I did not even think I could set myself another goal, i thought I'll just have to drop out.

[lennanightrun]

Nah, I don't have time; gotta apply for graduate schools! Also not sure what I'd write about if I were participating. Maybe I'll just get back into writing a bit in my space time and provide moral support!

You should totally set another goal! It's a great policy to set yourself something reasonable if you can't quite reach a more difficult one rather than give up :D

[reetinkerbell]

Exciting about the translating (except for the stupid one). :) It's a shame about NaNo, but if you want to do it, you could always set a lower goal. It's perfectly acceptable to "only" have a goal of 10 000 words, or even less. That way, you'd hopefully be able to join in on some of the nanowrimo fun (especially if there are going to be write-ins that you can join in person) without the pressure - it'd also help you get an idea of what NaNo is all about.

[dianoram]

I really like reading about what goes on in people's minds at forums - so many strange and exciting ideas :-)

This way even if I write only 10 000 words I'll be happy to participate.

[reetinkerbell]

So long as the ideas don't start sprouting bunnies all over the place in your own mind, muddling up what you're already planning on writing, it's all good! :)

I think that's a good goal. This year I'm doing something different; instead of one story, I'm writing on three stories (maybe four) which will all be shorter, and I will count them jointly towards my 50k goal. You're not technically "supposed" to do this, but hey, I can be a rebel if I want to! :) (My nick is RTBell, so I'm a Reebell :P)