Comments on: The Writer’s Technology Companion Celebrates NaNoWriMo! http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/11/the-writers-technology-companion-celebrates-nanowrimo Tools, Tips, and Technology for Productive Writers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:31:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Paul Lagasse http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/11/the-writers-technology-companion-celebrates-nanowrimo/comment-page-1#comment-578 Paul Lagasse Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:36:28 +0000 http://www.writerstechnology.com/?p=489#comment-578 You could do what I do: Nano-WriMo, as in "teeny tiny amount of writing each day!" :-D As I see it, the big takeaway from NaNo is not the output, but rather the discipline -- training yourself to carve out the time every day to write, and experiencing the "rush" that you get when you give yourself that time. Eventually, you start to look forward to it, even crave it, and then you can't live without it. (Which poses its own dangers, IMHO) Taking the time to "just write" is the biggest hurdle for a lot of writers, myself included... You could do what I do: Nano-WriMo, as in “teeny tiny amount of writing each day!” :-D

As I see it, the big takeaway from NaNo is not the output, but rather the discipline — training yourself to carve out the time every day to write, and experiencing the “rush” that you get when you give yourself that time. Eventually, you start to look forward to it, even crave it, and then you can’t live without it. (Which poses its own dangers, IMHO)

Taking the time to “just write” is the biggest hurdle for a lot of writers, myself included…

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