I used to to do NANO every year for the first four or five years I was writing. But haven't done it since as it makes me crazy. :) I'm one of those people that if I've created a deadline I do everything to make it, even if it means not sleeping (not good for me). Instead I make goals every year for a total word count for the year and a "hoped for" number of release titles. It's much more sane than a one month thing.
Regarding Twitter. I did leave it on Sunday, giving up 15K followers (less than a third really paid attention to me). I'd been thinking about leaving for the past three years because I no longer thought it was really giving me anything I wanted. The people I follow also post the same content (or similar) to their FB page, their Instagram page, LinkedIn and other places. In its early days I loved Twitter. I knew how to build my platform an how to curate my feed. But I haven't loved it for a good four to five years now. However, I felt I "had to" be there. Musk taking over was the last straw that made me say enough. I'm betting there will be another twitter-like platform that will be created and, I hope, become a better version of the old Twitter. On the other hand, in many ways, TikTok is the new Twitter version--it's just video-based.
My experience and relationship with twitter has been much the same. My curiosity about how fast and hard it will burn (or not) makes me reluctant to officially duck out just yet!
Sara, my NaNo goal is like yours. Not that I want to write garbage to get the word count up, but I'm giving myself permission to play fast and loose enough to get around my inner critic. So far so good, as of Day 2.
I used to to do NANO every year for the first four or five years I was writing. But haven't done it since as it makes me crazy. :) I'm one of those people that if I've created a deadline I do everything to make it, even if it means not sleeping (not good for me). Instead I make goals every year for a total word count for the year and a "hoped for" number of release titles. It's much more sane than a one month thing.
Regarding Twitter. I did leave it on Sunday, giving up 15K followers (less than a third really paid attention to me). I'd been thinking about leaving for the past three years because I no longer thought it was really giving me anything I wanted. The people I follow also post the same content (or similar) to their FB page, their Instagram page, LinkedIn and other places. In its early days I loved Twitter. I knew how to build my platform an how to curate my feed. But I haven't loved it for a good four to five years now. However, I felt I "had to" be there. Musk taking over was the last straw that made me say enough. I'm betting there will be another twitter-like platform that will be created and, I hope, become a better version of the old Twitter. On the other hand, in many ways, TikTok is the new Twitter version--it's just video-based.
My experience and relationship with twitter has been much the same. My curiosity about how fast and hard it will burn (or not) makes me reluctant to officially duck out just yet!
Sara, my NaNo goal is like yours. Not that I want to write garbage to get the word count up, but I'm giving myself permission to play fast and loose enough to get around my inner critic. So far so good, as of Day 2.
Yes!! The inner critic needs to take the month off.
My worst enemy.