Switching Gears

So I started NaNoWriMo this year. I truly do think that this is a great thing to do, and I encourage everybody to complete it at least once. Unfortunately, I will not finish.

I just never got truly excited about it this year. However, I still like the idea of using your downtime to do something productive. Not in the sense of checking things off of your todo list, but in the sense of producing something.

One of the nice things about NaNoWriMo is the notion of the deadline. The big 50,000 goal and the 30 days force you to put aside your inner editor and just write. “30 days and nights of literary abandon.” I think that is a great slogan, and it is at the heart of the endeavor. You just have to go for it, to dive head first, and at the end there is a novel. It may be terrible, but you finished it, and that is awesome.

So why I am stopping?

The conceptual core of NaNoWriMo is what really excites me, but I was not able to get excited about the particular vehicle this year. So I decided to get a new vehicle. 

I am just not sure what I will be driving.

Some may read this post as a cop out, and that is fair. But I am hoping that I can look back at the end of the month and see that I have produced something. Whether it be taking some pictures, writing posts on here about things I find interesting, or building something, who knows? (Okay, probably not that last one…)