never really pulled off NaNoWriMo consistently, myself. incredible to get as much done as you did, especially with kids. when i am writing - not often lately! - i do find that most days i get spent around 1200-1400, though i've certainly had bigger days than that.
i struggle with the reality of fiction-writing-as-hobby, which honestly is the only fiction writing i've done. it's tough for me because it is, as you say, very solitary and without a lot of reward outside of itself unless you can get other people to read it, which mostly doesn't happen. i have a long-standing image of myself as a writer, but that image runs real hard up against the difficulty of actually doing it and the reality that if i do it, 99.9999% chance it really is just for me.
I attempt Nano every year, since I had my second. Every year I don’t just fail, I forget I’m doing it halfway through bc I get so overwhelmed w life. I think having kids makes it really hard to get into that space and stay there. I enjoyed reading this and those charts though. 2000 words a day isn’t hard to do, tbh. What’s harder is getting into that space in the pockets of time bw life.
I haven't done nanowrimo but I have thought about it over the years. I'm much more into the take a photo every day than write.
never really pulled off NaNoWriMo consistently, myself. incredible to get as much done as you did, especially with kids. when i am writing - not often lately! - i do find that most days i get spent around 1200-1400, though i've certainly had bigger days than that.
i struggle with the reality of fiction-writing-as-hobby, which honestly is the only fiction writing i've done. it's tough for me because it is, as you say, very solitary and without a lot of reward outside of itself unless you can get other people to read it, which mostly doesn't happen. i have a long-standing image of myself as a writer, but that image runs real hard up against the difficulty of actually doing it and the reality that if i do it, 99.9999% chance it really is just for me.
I would read your fiction! Have you thought about self-publishing?
I attempt Nano every year, since I had my second. Every year I don’t just fail, I forget I’m doing it halfway through bc I get so overwhelmed w life. I think having kids makes it really hard to get into that space and stay there. I enjoyed reading this and those charts though. 2000 words a day isn’t hard to do, tbh. What’s harder is getting into that space in the pockets of time bw life.