So NaNoWriMo Begins…

…and so does the writer’s block.

*sigh*

First person or third?

I’ve decided to write about my experience of having gone from Computer Diva to fired to leaving everything I knew in New Orleans and moving to Maine to work and experiencing my first Fall and my first Winter and my first snow-in and on and on.

But should I start before “the firing” so the world can see what a snotty Computer Diva I was, at “the firing” where in disbelieving numbness I fell from my self-built pedestal, or after deciding to go to Maine?

Should I not write about this subject? In a way I’m hoping this will be cathartic, but am I too close to it?

And I’ve already lost almost 10 hours of writing time to sleep and writer’s block…I wonder if I’d stayed up last night and started at midnight when I was braindead, would I have just gotten started without the agonizing and angst?

Crossposted at NaNo Maine.

tags: NaNoWriMo, writing, autobiography

3 comments

1. on November 1, 2005 at 12:12 pm

   Tamara said:

   I haven’t started yet, either. I caved and went to bed at about 11. It does me no good to start this month off with a sleep deficit, so I’d say you made the right choice, too!

   I have some vague ideas, and will get started on the actual words on my lunch hour, probably. Except unless I want nothing but soup, I have to run out and get something, so I am already cutting into my time. After work, I have to go to the chiropractor, but luckily it’s a rest day from my workouts, so after dinner and the dishes, I’ll have a good chunk of time.

   I need to build up a little bit of a word cushion, because we’re going to California for the entire Thanksgiving week. I’ll be taking my laptop, but still!

   Wheeeee!

2. on November 1, 2005 at 9:07 pm

   Tamara said:

   I have exactly 1767 words (100 more than my quota!) and a bad headache. How’s it going for you?

   I’m not going where I thought I would, but it’s not hideously horrible.

   Keep me posted!

3. on November 2, 2005 at 12:28 pm

   n. mallory said:

   I’m very jealous of your 200 words more than me. Congrats on going over your quota!

   *throws confetti*

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