{"id":750,"date":"2015-10-28T18:46:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2015-10-28T18:46:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:46:44","slug":"deciding-on-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Deciding on November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy lately. \u00a0I have new responsibilities with the Rancho Cordova River City Concert Band. \u00a0I still have projects to complete at work, and due to unfortunate illness, I have one less person to help me complete those projects. \u00a0There&#8217;s fundraisers to shepherd. \u00a0There&#8217;s music to learn. \u00a0And throughout all of that, I should probably stay in touch with my family.<\/p>\n<p>So, I willingly gave up on Blog-tober. \u00a0I had a good head of steam going there for a couple of days, where I was writing on subject matters that meant something to me. \u00a0And, to my surprise, people responded. \u00a0It felt strange, because people\u00a0I didn&#8217;t think were reading my posts were approaching me about them. \u00a0It was satisfying, and humbling, and a bit frightening.<\/p>\n<p>Something had to give, though. \u00a0I pulled the plug, took a step back, and tried to catch my breath. \u00a0I stated at the beginning of the month that if I couldn&#8217;t complete Blog-tober, I didn&#8217;t stand a chance of completing NaNoWriMo. \u00a0So is that it, then? \u00a0Do I give up?<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I don&#8217;t know. \u00a0I still have more editing to do. \u00a0Maybe I should focus on editing the second draft of <em>The Repossessed Ghost<\/em>, and not worry about starting a new novel this year. \u00a0I already have two other unfinished first drafts weighing on my conscience. \u00a0Do I really need a third?<\/p>\n<p>But then again, I&#8217;ve been thinking about a science fiction story. \u00a0Something involving life on the moon in a big spinning drum. \u00a0A story with nearly sentient robots and virtual reality. \u00a0A story about an improbable crime, and a man caught in the middle. \u00a0He has to figure out what happened before someone else gets hurt.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what the right thing to do is. \u00a0I have so much on my plate already. \u00a0What would I get from trying to write another story in November? \u00a0At best, I&#8217;d have another first draft that would need editing, and the right to buy another &#8220;I won at NaNoWriMo&#8221; t-shirt. \u00a0At worst, I&#8217;d have another start of a story, and all the feelings of failure that come with that.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy the Sacramento NaNoWriMo community. \u00a0I like going to the write-ins, and joining the word wars, and chatting with folks in IRC. \u00a0Will I have time for any of that, with everything else that&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p>October still has\u00a0a few days left. \u00a0I can think on it a little bit longer. \u00a0While I think about it, I should consider the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I won&#8217;t be able to write at all on Mondays and Tuesdays. \u00a0Those days are simply too full.<\/li>\n<li>I won&#8217;t have time to edit\u00a0<em>The Repossessed Ghost<\/em>, so that will languish for a month. \u00a0I really want\u00a0to have the next draft finished before the end of the year.<\/li>\n<li>The story idea I have in mind is a third person story, and I don&#8217;t write in third person very quickly.<\/li>\n<li>Assuming Thursdays and Fridays are also too full for writing, I would have 13 days (Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays) to write 50,000 words. \u00a0That&#8217;s nearly 4,000 words every time I sit down to write in the month of November.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It sounds like a challenge. \u00a0But it also sounds like pointless self torture. \u00a0How masochistic am I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy lately. \u00a0I have new responsibilities with the Rancho Cordova River City Concert Band. \u00a0I still have projects to complete at work, and due to unfortunate illness, I have one less person to help me complete those projects. \u00a0There&#8217;s fundraisers to shepherd. \u00a0There&#8217;s music to learn. \u00a0And throughout all of that, I should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}