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Then Again

The moment I do the adult thing and make a sensible decision, and declare my intentions, and feel very good about myself? My writer side sneaks back to that awful website and messes up everything.

Okay, so I only meant to make a donation to National Novel Writing Month, because I always do, every year, and I believe the work they do with kids is important. If I'd had a NaNoWriMo in my life when I was a fledgling I might have done more with my writing than hide it from everyone. Anyway, their crappy web site design wasn't going to keep me from tossing a few pennies in the charity pot.

And then, quite by accident, I saw the graphic design for this year's challenge. It's very steampunk, very cool, so of course it would be for the year I didn't participate. So I tried again to make sense of the website, and finally figured out how to change a few things. I thought I'd try to list a project, undecided and unnamed, of course, and then I was hitting publish and declaring myself a participant. I really don't know how the hell that happened.

Go ahead, laugh at me. I'm nuts.

Comments

nightsmusic said…
It happened to you the same way it happens to me every year. I get sucked in, even though I try so hard not to because I just don't need the pressure of trying not to fail. But I go for it. :/
the author said…
So we're both nuts. Ah, well, at least I'm in good company.

Last night I was thinking that all my aggravation is for the people who run the NaNoWriMo web site, not with the event itself. I love writing through November. Puts me in a much better mood for the holidays. :)