Oh dear.

[go_team]

I just sent email to National Novel Writing Month headquarters volunteering to be the Municipal Liaison for Eugene this year. My plan was to write the email and then postpone sending it and look at it again and decide whether it was still a good idea, but force of habit took over and I sent it. Mostly I think this is a good thing --- it will force me to be more committed to NaNoWriMo, probably get me to meet new people, and be as much work as I'm willing to make it, so as long as I don't go insane with responsibility everything will be fine. But still... eep.

Anyways, now that I've done that, I feel like it's time for another poll, this one to determine what I can do to reduce what I perceive as being my fairly obnoxious NaNoWriMo obsession. Here goes:

[Poll #187877]

Based on the results of this poll, I'll either start hiding all my NaNoWriMo stuff behind cuts (this would be easiest for me, since I could mix NaNo stuff in with other entries) or create appropriate filters for people interested in reading my NaNoWriMo adventures, or interested in avoiding them, as the case may be, and write separate entries when necessary.

In other news, I think my cold or whatever it is that was bothering me on Wednesday has decided to settle in my sinuses and give me yucky post-nasal drip. Tonight I will attempt to combat this with hot and sour soup, so there.

Comments

NaNoWriMo all the time!!!

[kuddliphish.livejournal.com]

You didn't have an option for write more, longer entries ;) I picked the solution I'm going with for my own NaNoWriMo obsessive tendencies. I also picked the new picture because I envy your unlimited user pics and want to live vicariously through you.

[goteam.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I don't have unlimited user pics, so I'm going to have to kill one of my old ones to provide a special "I'm NaNo-ing!" icon if that's the option I choose. Another option I didn't list is: use one of my many LJ codes to create a separate NaNoWriMo account. A bunch of people mentioned this one on the NaNoWriMo discussion boards, but it seems like overkill to me. On the other hand, it wouldn't require me to kill of one of my precious old userpics... hmmm. I think cropping some variation of last year's "red-panted novelist triumphant" would be a good icon =)

[kuddliphish.livejournal.com]

Paid users don't have unlimited user pics?! My illusions are shattered...though I suppose it makes sense from a storage standpoint.

A TON of people in the nano lj community have a nano specific journal. It seems a little excessive to me, but whatever floats your boat. I think a lot of them are using them to post the work in progress as well, which I have no plans of doing.

Re: NaNoWriMo all the time!!!

[iainuki.livejournal.com]

I'll add a vote for more, longer entries. In particular, you talk about NaNoWriMo a lot, but not so much about what you're writing. How do you go about creating plots, characters, settings, etc.?

[pmb.livejournal.com]

Garr! I don't hate you - stupid mouse buttons combined with scroll wheel combined with the inherent wackitude of electrons.

NaNoWriMo (NoPoWriMo?) isn't annoying at all. Bring the signal.

[clairebaxter.livejournal.com]

I like NaNoWriMo stuff, especially as you convinced me to join up. But I do generally approve the use of lj-cuts for long entries. I'll still come and read your novel stuff.