Wed, Dec. 4
... Addiction. I think we all need therapy.
Okay, I found this list on the
NaNo site, and just about peed my pants laughing... I just had to post it. Maybe some of you who have been around me for the past month will be able to relate from an outsider's perspective!
You know you're addicted to NaNo when . . .
-You see phone numbers in terms of wordcount
-You find yourself adding extra words to the notes you take in class
-You check your standing in "total posts" as often as you check your "wordcount" standing
-You're very aware of the signifigance of urinal cakes
-Whenever you hear of something odd, funny or unusual, your first thought is: "that would make a great dare on the 'I dare you' thread."
-You find that everything, everything you do/talk about somehow relates back to NaNo in your head
-The paper you're trying to write is very, very wordy, but makes no sense whatsoever.
-You know why ninjas are cool. And when I say cool, I mean, "totally sweet."
-People ask you your wordcount in the halls
-The staff at the local Starbucks knows you and you have your regular table next to the outlet.
-The little MSWord dog (or paper clip) is your late night buddy
-Your roomates go to sleep every night to the sound of you busily typing away
-When you hit a new thousand, you compulsivly throw up your arms and cheer, regardless of where you are.
-Strangers in Starbucks ask you how the novel's going.
-Suddenly, 2500 word history papers seem positively short.
-All of your friends can explain NaNo, as well as NaNo's history, to anyone who asks.
-You haven't slept in two (insert appropriate number here) weeks.
-You are starting to
think in the five-seven-five
form of the haiku
-Kafkaesqui's feat of 1000 odd posts and a purple winner's bar seems like the greatest possible acheivement.
-You are awful at math, but can calculate how many words you have left to write with no problem.
-When people ask "how are you?" you respond with a number: your wordcount.
-They know exactly what that number is and what it means, and whether it is high or low, and can respond accordingly.
-Patrons at 3 different local coffee shops come up to your group and ask about your word count.
-In the interest of putting as much time as possible into your novel, you drank so much coffee that you became immune to it.
-You neglected your social life.
-You procrastinate by reading The Writer's Digest Handbook to Novel Writing.
-You actually learned something from The Writer's Digest Handbook to Novel Writing.
-You used a dare you never intended on using.
-You start a "You know you're addicted to NaNo when.." thread.
-You've reprogrammed one of your keyboard's special-function-buttons to open the web browser on the NaNoWriMo forums.
-Your friends are tired of hearing, "Well, I'd love to go to the movies/go have coffee/get a pedicure, but I have to write at least 2,000 words tomorrow."
-You do go to the movie and then wonder how many words you would have written if you could have sneaked the laptop in.
-Your diary entries all feature a word count update.
-You've memorized the MS Word shortcut keys for the word count
-Even your mother says "Well, I'd love to talk longer, but I'll hang up so you can work on your novel."
-50,000 has become a number full of magical symbolism
-Your workplace knows your word count
-You start seeing EVERYTHING as having some sort of serendipitous connection to your novel (and therefore being worthy of inclusion, if only to up the word count.
-You dream about your novel at night.
-The last things you see in your mind at nights is the big ole "National Novel Writing Month" logo at the top of your computer screen.
-Your roommate knows your alotted time for writing your novel and wouldn't DARE to even darken the doorway while your creative juices (or lack thereof) are flowing.
-You forget that there is something outside of NaNoWrMo that exists that's called "the rest of the world".
infinite || abyss
posted at 11:38 p.m.
