Camp NaNo April 2021
March 31st, 2021 15:02Well folks, here we are again! You know, I've always been pretty good with my April goals and then just divebombs in July, and let's not even get started on the actual NaNoWriMo in November. But I'm making this a tradition, so this is yet another year of Camp NaNo on the way.
I'm doing it a bit different this year. Instead of just counting my words for my novel, I will also be working on some fan projects because, well, why not? So it's going to be a cumulative word count. I've set it at 20k but am secretly hoping to go beyond that haha. (Or I can fail miserably, but you gotta stay positiive). I'm also not going to try to go by words per day, because that's really demotivating for me. I'm just going to write as much as I can in the slotted time I give myself - which is about 3-4 hours on week days and 1-2 hours on weekend. It's a lot - definitely more than I usually do (I tend to take weekends off even though I don't exactly plan it that way. Just works out like that with all my weekly chores and responsibilities.) But hey, that's why it's Camp! A mini WriMo. (Speaking of, maybe I should actually set my word count at 25k? Exactly half of the November one and nicely divided between the April and July sessions. Thoughts for future years, not this one). As long as I keep myself motivated and focused enough to actually fill all those hours I planned, I might make it. Seriously. The hardest part is not to get distracted. Which is why I'm continuing my media blackout.
I'm not sure I talked that much about the media blackout here, but the point is just to block all distracting websites. Mostly reddit, cnn, and kotaku, which are the three big ones I get sucked into. It's not like Tumblr where once I'm done browsing my dashboard I'm done browsing. No, once I get on reddit I tend to stay for hours, which is both bad for my productivity and my mental health. I've tried in February to stay off those websites and my productivity definitely improved. And then I lapsed in March. Right. So for April, none of that, okay? Use the damn blockers!
Anyway that's the current state of things. And actually I'm certainly going to try to crosspost my fanfic related things here. Not because I worry about Tumblr but, I like here equally haha. I really want to use this blog more and more geeky content seems a good way to go.
I'm doing it a bit different this year. Instead of just counting my words for my novel, I will also be working on some fan projects because, well, why not? So it's going to be a cumulative word count. I've set it at 20k but am secretly hoping to go beyond that haha. (Or I can fail miserably, but you gotta stay positiive). I'm also not going to try to go by words per day, because that's really demotivating for me. I'm just going to write as much as I can in the slotted time I give myself - which is about 3-4 hours on week days and 1-2 hours on weekend. It's a lot - definitely more than I usually do (I tend to take weekends off even though I don't exactly plan it that way. Just works out like that with all my weekly chores and responsibilities.) But hey, that's why it's Camp! A mini WriMo. (Speaking of, maybe I should actually set my word count at 25k? Exactly half of the November one and nicely divided between the April and July sessions. Thoughts for future years, not this one). As long as I keep myself motivated and focused enough to actually fill all those hours I planned, I might make it. Seriously. The hardest part is not to get distracted. Which is why I'm continuing my media blackout.
I'm not sure I talked that much about the media blackout here, but the point is just to block all distracting websites. Mostly reddit, cnn, and kotaku, which are the three big ones I get sucked into. It's not like Tumblr where once I'm done browsing my dashboard I'm done browsing. No, once I get on reddit I tend to stay for hours, which is both bad for my productivity and my mental health. I've tried in February to stay off those websites and my productivity definitely improved. And then I lapsed in March. Right. So for April, none of that, okay? Use the damn blockers!
Anyway that's the current state of things. And actually I'm certainly going to try to crosspost my fanfic related things here. Not because I worry about Tumblr but, I like here equally haha. I really want to use this blog more and more geeky content seems a good way to go.
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