I went to a ‘write in’ today, now these day days during Nano that people in your region meet up and write together.. Well in the same place, and you do things like word wars (see who can write the most in 15-30 mins)
It was good, interesting is more the word, I’ve always had to ‘rearrange’ my life around my writing. Like most part timer’s there’s school, day jobs, writing is something you do. Now it’s my job, yay. Now don’t get me wrong I’m privileged to do what I do full time now, but it means that its harder to ‘take it seriously’ to sit down for 6 hours and write something more than 1,000 words. Some people can do it, me well someday I just can’t be assed you can’t be like in Nano or when it’s your job. Two days of lazy writing is going to cost me, I’m going to have to make up the time/words somewhere.
There was a lot to get out of today, made some headway in stories but more importantly started putting faces to names. But also what was strange was the sense of community- there wasn’t the awkward ‘intro phase’ it was mostly like pretend everyone already knew people and just jump into conversations. It is strange, mostly because peple ‘do’ know each other through IRC chats or the forum boards.. but stick people physically together and it was a little different, less talkative. Maybe we are all more comfortable from behind a user name or maybe its just being physically confronted with faces and not just names, having to actually deal with a person and not just their conversation.. anyway that’s it from me
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