Your barriers.

[Pom]

So, I'm in the homestretch. 1480 words will put me at 50k. I want to finish today, but I have this roadblock or reluctance to do it. It seems like this happens every year. I've been brushing the cats, dusting (which I NEVER DO) unloading the dishwasher, rearranging the counter tops. Looking at gifts on-line for my parents. Writing this post. NONE OF WHICH IS HELPING ME OVER THE 50k MARK, LOL.

My theory is that I don't want to "win" and then have to wrap it up with these characters. Maybe then the relationship is over? Is that weird or does this happen to anyone else? I also don't enjoy editing. It's the same reason I stopped going to college for accounting. I hated looking for mistakes, auditing and editing. Blech.

Please share whatever roadblocks, barriers that are tough for you and how you get past them.


PS.Dedication/Confession re: my NANOWRIMO 2015... I am only here already because of my H, bless him. He has cooked dinners, went grocery shopping, stayed out of my hair. Plus we have no kids and I don't work outside the home. (full disclosure) He also considers this my therapy time since our lives revolve around his career always, lol.

I admire all of you even attempting this, especially those with kids, careers, families of whatever life priorities you have.
That's amazing, go you.

[mousemelon]

I usually can't write until the evening and by that time, I'm so tired that the last thing I want to do is write. That's my main barrier. For some reason I've been struggling with getting into the characters this year. It's getting better now that I'm writing the story in a linear way instead of jumping around, but I feel like whatever I write is just rubbish.

I am so excited for H's day off tomorrow so I can go and work someplace other than my house. I'm going to be about 4k behind by tomorrow even though I've written 2k+ tonight so far.

As far as winning and having the relationship 'end', I think that's where the fun of editing and adding things to the story comes in. Just because November is over doesn't mean your story has to be!

[fatamy]

My roadblocks are the normal spouse, kid, job, dogs, family, etc. But now that I'm on my 7th NaNo, they know how important it is to me so they give me some space.

Also, the internet is the worst when I'm writing. I get to googling or log on to FB and there goes 20 minutes I could hae written 750 words!

[fatamy]

Also, CONGRATS Pom hope you hit it by now

[anastasia517]

When I have problems with a scene, I tend to really slow down since I write in order.

I'm terrible at continuing after November too. Terrible. I have a gap from 2009 that still hasn't been fixed. The story I'm currently working on was started in November 2011 but I've basically only worked on it 4 NaNo months (seriously, 175k in NaNo and ~11k the rest of the time going in this year). That's why I want to get all the big things done in November this year.

Too much free time also throws me off, funnily enough. The first time Camp NaNo was when my family had just moved and had no friends, jobs, etc. in our new place. My sister and I both barely squeaked 50k each when we'd hit 100k the November before.

[gardengal]

I need large blocks of time. I'm writing in largely a fantasy world, or at least the real world with strong mythological features. It's hard for me to get into it and once I'm there, it's hard for me to leave. So, writing for an hour or so doesn't work for me. I really work best with 3hr blocks of time. However, I've got a job and kids and other family commitments so it's been difficult lately for me to keep on track.

I also haven't committed myself to editing. I'm not even fixing typos as I go and am not sure I'll spell check it afterwards. If I finish & I want to, great! But I'm not putting that pressure on myself