Reasons that NaNoWriMo will be hard this year
- I have full time job teaching voice lessons. I enjoy them, but they require a lot of energy and mental focus.
- 4 hours of tai chi classes and a one hour qigong class every week. Sometimes I'm the teacher, sometimes the teaching assistant, and sometimes, I get to just be a student.
- Working with my personal trainer twice a week.
- NATS Student Adjudications the first weekend of the month will suck up most of my writing time for that weekend.
- An extra qigong workshop on the second Saturday means that it is pretty much a tai chi/qigong day and I won't get much writing in.
- Third weekend of the month starts with a Thursday workshop I'm giving. Then on Friday I've committed to go to a student's performance. Saturday is an update for my tai chi certification.
Summary, my days and evenings during the week are already pretty full. I usually write a lot on the weekends, but this year, I have more weekend commitments.
Reasons I should do it anyway and things that may actually help me
- Writing feeds my soul.
- I actually already have a vague idea about what I want to write. World building and character development for the main characters is already done since I've already written about this world and characters before.
- I want to discover who Jenna becomes after the amazing, transformative experiences she was having when I wrote about her last.
- I learn through writing. I figure things out through writing. I process and understand through writing, and I have a lot to process and understand right now.
- No school November 8. Extra writing time!
- I don't work at all the last 4 days of the month. With the exception of my workout, I can pretty much write non-stop. I've done 10,000 word days before, so I could use these days to make up for all the other times I can't write.
I guess the real question is, "How can I not take this time to write?" I have to do this. I don't know if I'll win (it won't be the end of the world if I don't) but I need to try.
I just found this awesome quote that totally explains why:
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
~Thomas Merton
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