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Sunday, 29 November 2009 11:31 pm
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Ahhhh. Once again, I have won NaNoWriMo a day early. And once again, the site's word counter is somehow ahead of Microsoft Word's -- by 193 words this time. Oh well, it wins either way. Besides, I haven't finished the story yet, and I expect to do so tomorrow.
In my plan to pursue publication regardless of personal dissatisfaction with the draft, I've come to realize something about my life for the last several years. Few things have made me feel more down and out than wasted efforts. As a result, I've been reluctant to try anything that could easily end up a wasted effort. What hadn't occurred to me was that total losses are actually quite rare. Failures tend to turn into learning experiences for somebody, at least. The real waste is in virtual non-efforts, like the many times that I've taken a break from writing to play Spider Solitaire or Mahjong Titans. Now I wish I knew how to delete them from Vista to avoid further temptation.
In my plan to pursue publication regardless of personal dissatisfaction with the draft, I've come to realize something about my life for the last several years. Few things have made me feel more down and out than wasted efforts. As a result, I've been reluctant to try anything that could easily end up a wasted effort. What hadn't occurred to me was that total losses are actually quite rare. Failures tend to turn into learning experiences for somebody, at least. The real waste is in virtual non-efforts, like the many times that I've taken a break from writing to play Spider Solitaire or Mahjong Titans. Now I wish I knew how to delete them from Vista to avoid further temptation.