I’ve got it all figure out, dear readers!! I thought that, over my 10-day spring break, I would be wildly productive and get loads of writing done. Yeah, yeah, I know. Anyone could have told me that that was highly unlikely. Didn’t get much done.. But. BUT. Yesterday, as I was taking a leisurely, 2-hour break after completing my (admittedly long, difficult, and tedious) physics homework, I thought about the chemistry homework I had to do, and instead turned to writing. I reasoned that, even though I wasn’t doing homework, I was doing something of value, right? Right? So I wrote over 2000 words. Which puts a tiny dent in the 12000 I trashed. Tiny, but a dent nonetheless. But see, it wasn’t even my grim reaper story or the Peter Pan thing! It was the NaNo novel. So there. (:
So, kiddies, what have we learned? Write when you should be doing other things, and your adamant avoidance of previous responsibilities will push you forward. Because if you stop writing, you have to do your chemistry homework! But if you think, “Look, I’m on a roll. I’ll just keep writing till I can’t think of anything for a bit..” And before you know it, the words will be spilling onto the page because you can’t stop! No, no stopping; stopping means work. So make a list of all the things you have to do, stick it by your computer, and studiously ignore it until you’ve written a few thousand words every day!!
