Nano and Balance

[aldersprig]

As I step into my third Nanowrimo, I've been looking around and reading blog posts on "surviving nano," "making it through/to 50K," and so on, and I was struck that, if they mention your family at all, the general consensus is "your husband and children will not see you for the next thirty days."

Combine this with advice to "remember to eat food, even if it's Burger King and take-out pizza," it occurred me that, not only is nano generally a younger person than mine's game (oh, my, did I just say that? Hi, dad), but that it was sorely in need of a post on "balancing life, family, and nanowrimo."

Then I wondered if I had done a sufficiently good job balancing those things in the past - my husband says no, but then he said I'd left him alone in the yard overnight and nobody had come to get him and he was so saaad, so I have to take it with a grain of salt (he's also threatened to go feral).

So what I am going to do, gentle readers, is be mindful of balance over the next month of feverishly grinding out 2000 words a day in a setting I barely know. And I will report to you faithfully every Wednesday on my progress thereof. I might even get my husband to do a guest post (don't hold your breath ;-)

Stay tuned for the adventures of Balance and the Art of Nanoing.

Comments

[cluudle.livejournal.com]

Feral can be an attractive look, done right?

[aldersprig]

heehee, yes, it can.

[inventrix]

I mused over this for a minute before realizing that I have never had a problem with this because I've never had a "life" to balance it with. :D

(and not remembering to eat is something I'm never going to grow out of, hah)

[aldersprig]

I sort of wish I could forget to eat, sigh.

But that aside, didn't you have Job? And you have J.

[inventrix]

Yeah because fainting spells, dehydration and realizing your hands are shaking because your blood sugar is crashing are totally enviable states. :D

*wrinkles nose* I don't think having a job counts as having a life one needs to balance. All of the ones I've seen about it are about one's personal life, at least. I think it's generally assumed that work is non-NaNo, which is why so many people proceed to sacrifice their entire personal and social lives instead.

[aldersprig]

Well, okay, but eating until you're bloated because you can't stop isn't very fun either.

hrrm. Don't tell anyone, but I write at work ;-)

[inventrix]

Forgetting to eat and eating too much when you DO eat don't seem mutually exclusive to me. >.> In fact, the former would probably only encourage the latter.

Hee. I shall keep it super-secret. ;D

I would write at work once I got an office job, too, but... November was always busy and stressful. .-. It's why I didn't last the first week for any of the past three years.

THIS year, all I have to worry about is SCHOOL! 8D

[aldersprig]

Just School!

You can do it!!