The deuce! Oh yes, that's a funny one too. I knew I could count on you British types. Y'all have a better instinctive and cultural grasp of obscenity and its shades than Americans, and it's a little-appreciated fact. (I was gobsmacked consistently during my UK sojourn as a teen to discover the myriad grades of vulgarity, obscenity, and overall color available in the UK dialect that the US one simply doesn't possess, as well as by how thoroughly versed in different registers of communication everyone was. Americans just don't use the language as hard, on average.)
It's not for me that NaNo rushes me, it's that it frees me rather too much, and I feel perfectly justified in ardent pursuit of every wordy and labyrinthine possibility remotely suggested by the plot, as well as freeform dives into alternate universes before the primary one is even established. It's awful, because I really don't need that-- I'm capable of it on my own, thanks. Six years on and I'm still trying to clean up some of the mess from NaNo 2003... I did all right in '04 I think, or maybe it was '05, on discipline and producing a readable output, but it's still not optimal for me-- that readable output is so uninteresting I've made only the slightest attempts since to revise it, and have consistently failed to make anything remotely salable out of it. Oh well. I'm glad NaNo helps others, though. And I have had so much fun with it in the past. Maybe I'll be in a place again to need it, someday.
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Date: 2009-11-30 05:27 pm (UTC)It's not for me that NaNo rushes me, it's that it frees me rather too much, and I feel perfectly justified in ardent pursuit of every wordy and labyrinthine possibility remotely suggested by the plot, as well as freeform dives into alternate universes before the primary one is even established. It's awful, because I really don't need that-- I'm capable of it on my own, thanks. Six years on and I'm still trying to clean up some of the mess from NaNo 2003... I did all right in '04 I think, or maybe it was '05, on discipline and producing a readable output, but it's still not optimal for me-- that readable output is so uninteresting I've made only the slightest attempts since to revise it, and have consistently failed to make anything remotely salable out of it.
Oh well. I'm glad NaNo helps others, though. And I have had so much fun with it in the past. Maybe I'll be in a place again to need it, someday.