It’s a lot of fun to watch, but I really think it’d be stressful as hell to be on, and no fun.
milieu's Life List
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1. create a computer game
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2. finish my NANO novel
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3. Learn Cocoa
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4. create my own website
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5. get a masters degree
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6. Go to the dentist
975 people -
7. stop biting my nails
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8. Become a better programmer
905 people -
9. Get more sleep
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10. Learn Judo
123 people -
11. learn martial arts
877 people -
12. Learn to pick locks
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13. win the lottery
3,998 people -
14. own an island
289 people -
15. Fly First Class
1,242 people -
16. travel around the world
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17. Become Financially Independent
6,299 people -
18. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
5,530 people -
19. Beat my depression
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20. stop procrastinating
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21. stop wasting time
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22. Finish what I start
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23. Move to New Zealand
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24. have no regrets
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25. watch all scrubs episodes
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26. Watch a space shuttle launch
955 people
If you’ve ever been interested in doing NaNoWriMo, then you need to do it. There are endless good reasons for doing it, and no good reasons not to do it. No plot or outline ready? So what? I started a day late, with nothing but a title, and I made it. You can too, if you just try.
Next year, on November 30th, will you remember what you did for that month? Will it be the month that you wrote a novel, or at least gave it a good shot? Or will it be another forgettable fall month?
NaNoWriMo unlocks your creativity, and destroys that evil little bastard of an inner critic who stops you from doing anything. I’ve tried writing novels before, and never got past a few chapters before I stalled in an endless cycle of rewriting the same chapters over and over. NaNo forces you to get past that, and into the point where the story just flows out of you, and often in very strange directions.
