Dear Bloggers, Blobbers, and NaNos of the World,
Enough. Enough with the NaNoWriMo bullshit. Please. I beg you. Nobody cares about the shitty novel you’re cranking out in November. Not even your mom. She might pretend that she cares, but she doesn’t.
I know this comes off as super snotty and bitchy, but well, I’m a snotty bitch.
Yeah, I signed up for NaNoWriMo once. I did. I’m a writer and thought, ‘hey this is a writing thing, I should do it.’ But then by November 3rd, I realized it was a total and complete waste of my time. I realized November could be better spent revising even one of the short stories I’ve written throughout the year. Or I could spend the time reading a real novel that someone published. Or I could research some lit mags to send my short stories to. Or I could just write, like writers do.
I talked to a few writer friends who are doing the NaNoWriMo and they were surprised by my vehement dislike of the event.
“Is it the quantity over quality aspect?” One of them asked.
Hell No, I said. Because that would make me biggest hypocrite in all the land. I’m infamous for cranking out a shitty short story in about 24 hours. So it’s not that.
It’s that for an entire month you have every yahoo on the web block going on endlessly about their novel. They are, afterall, a writer writing a novel. But come December 1 and continuing through October 31st they’re back to being just the same old non-writing semi-sane person they usually are. There’s nary a peep about writing fiction of any kind.
Whatever.
So yeah, I call shenannigans on this NaNoWriMo bullshit. Please shut it.
Love,
Jodi, the bitter
Damn, girl. NaNoWriMo sure lit your fire.
I’ll admit it…I was the “one.” I asked quantity over quality.
Normally I agree with you, but this year I’m actually doing it (but not talking about it every five seconds) and am being successful!!
That is all I’ll say about it.
See, you’re the exception the to bitching, because you’re gonna write on December 1st and every month until next NaNoWriMo. It makes sense that you would give this a shot.
It’s the people who never even think of writing fiction any other month of the year that kill me.
Oh and, I totally want to read your’s when you’re done.
For sure!! Of course I had to hand over my jump drive (egads) to the Kinkos people (egads again) and it has my novel on it so today is day three of not writing on it. Here’s hoping I see it again. I’m not thinking about how ALL of my writing is on the jump drive.
Love, love, love…this rant.
Couldn’t agree with you more.
Cheers,
JJ
just because you couldn’t do it doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing.
Late to the party, but, hey, Asstrid: who said she COULDN’T do it? She saw it for the sad waste of time that it is, and she STOPPED doing it. There’s a difference. Oh, and you can keep the extra “s.” Consider it a gift.