Happy Sunday dear readers! I hope your Sunday is restful and relaxing, and that you’ve had a fantastic weekend thus far. Earlier this week I published a post about how I was revising my approach to NaNoWriMo and no longer trying to hit the 50k word count. I must say, dear readers, I am *really* happy I did this. Work is progressing on my novel, albeit slower than before, and I am no longer ripping out my hair and contemplating tossing out the story. Always a good thing when that happens!
On a somber note, Nobel-prize winning author Doris Lessing died today at the age of 94. She published over 55 works over her lifetime, although she is most known for her 1962 novel The Golden Notebook, which is considered a feminist classic. RIP Doris Lessing. You will be missed.
WRT Nano, I agree with your decision. I don’t do Nano for several reasons, but the one you’ve touched on here is the stress it causes me. That stress kills my flow and, at best, produced sub par work.
Yup, that sounds exactly like what happened with me. Writing is stressful enough on its own, it seemed silly to me to keep at a strategy that was amplifying that in an unproductive way.