I have to agree with every word. I wouldn't care so much if people didn't act like it was such a big fucking deal either. Great you're writing a whole lot of useless drivel for your own amusement. Whatever keeps you happen. But I could care less. It is irrelevant to my interests and I don't need to hear about it every day from half my flist.
I'm not even a writer, academic or fiction and I know I could pull a nano out of my ass if I really felt like it to but what good would it do me? I'm not getting graded or paid for it so no thanks. I'm not even a writer who might be practicing cause I hope to make a career out of it so yeah. Everyone has their hobbies I guess, I just don't have to like them.
Okay. So I had to sit on this for a little while and think about why it bothered me so much. Especially considering I don't even do NanoWriMo. Then I realized what it is.
I am a twenty-three year old college drop-out with only the vague intent of going back some day. I work full-time as a waitress.
Doing 2000 words a day would be a huge accomplishment for me. I love to write, realize that I'm not very good at it, and have difficulty forcing myself to write at all.
For someone like me, it's super exciting to know that you're doing something, even if it's a bunch of crap. So you want to post about it.
It's like a rocket scientist belittling a fifth grade kid's science project.
Unless I'm completely misconstruing what you're trying to say, and if so, I apologize. It's quite possible--I have a tendency to get very defensive when something strikes an emotional chord with me.
When you write a rant or take a defensive opinion you have to realize that someone is going to be on the opposite side. I think this is the point where I stick my hands in my pockets and wish that I hadn't said anything but it's one of my push buttons for the pettiest reasons: ie people acting high and mighty for doing something for one month that I have to do every other week. Wah wah, it's no fair that it's my job and someone else wants to have a bit of fun.
However, I don't think there's anything wrong with someone enjoying it for other reasons and taking some pride in something that isn't their work and isn't their whole life...and in my own defense I am freaking out about that now so that's sticking it to every last one of my buttons and god knows if I'm regretting saying anything now I'm going to be beating my head against the wall after the 11th.
I get what you're saying. Almost everyone falls prey to it at some time or another. It's like someone's whining about a cold when you're dying of the plague. Yeah, the plague is easily the worst of the two, but it doesn't make the person with the cold feel any less sick.
And I can totally get behind finding it annoying when people think they're amazing authors because they're doing NaNoWriMo.
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I'm not even a writer, academic or fiction and I know I could pull a nano out of my ass if I really felt like it to but what good would it do me? I'm not getting graded or paid for it so no thanks. I'm not even a writer who might be practicing cause I hope to make a career out of it so yeah. Everyone has their hobbies I guess, I just don't have to like them.
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I am a twenty-three year old college drop-out with only the vague intent of going back some day. I work full-time as a waitress.
Doing 2000 words a day would be a huge accomplishment for me. I love to write, realize that I'm not very good at it, and have difficulty forcing myself to write at all.
For someone like me, it's super exciting to know that you're doing something, even if it's a bunch of crap. So you want to post about it.
It's like a rocket scientist belittling a fifth grade kid's science project.
Unless I'm completely misconstruing what you're trying to say, and if so, I apologize. It's quite possible--I have a tendency to get very defensive when something strikes an emotional chord with me.
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However, I don't think there's anything wrong with someone enjoying it for other reasons and taking some pride in something that isn't their work and isn't their whole life...and in my own defense I am freaking out about that now so that's sticking it to every last one of my buttons and god knows if I'm regretting saying anything now I'm going to be beating my head against the wall after the 11th.
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And I can totally get behind finding it annoying when people think they're amazing authors because they're doing NaNoWriMo.
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