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NANOWRIMO DAY 26 // Honest Talk on Winning & Failing

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Channel: Kate Cavanaugh Writes · 2017 · People & Blogs

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Let's talk about what it means to fail NaNo and also how that doesn't reflect on you or your project/draft.

Intro 0:00
Talking Feelings About Winning and Losing: 0:24
Putting Numbers on Creativity is Hard (aka obsession with 50K): 0:43
Feeling Like a Failure for "Losing" NaNoWriMo: 1:20
Why I Didn't Want To Talk About This Until I Won, Part 1: 3:00
Conceptual vs. Actual Feelings: 3:25
Why I Didn't Want To Talk About This Until I Won, Part 2: 4:12
It's Okay To Feel Sucky & Be Kind to Yourself: 5:15
Mini Update on Me: 5:36
Questions for Youuuuu: 6:23

D A Y  2 6  S T A T S :
Current Word Count: 50,296 (VERIFIED)
(Updated) Personal Daily Goal: 52,000
NaNoWriMo Daily Goal: 43,333

2 0 1 7  N A N O W R I M O  G O A L S :
· Write 60K words
· Finish my story and type "The End"
· Be as good an ML as I can, foster an awesome group experience, and help grow a year-long writing group in our area
· Post a vlog for each day of NaNoWriMo

Let's be NaNo buddies! :)

D I S C U S S I O N  Q U E S T I O N S :
What do you think "failing" NaNoWriMo means?

F I N D  M E  O N L I N E :
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Blog: http://katecavanaugh.co/index.php/blog/
NaNoWriMo: https://nanowrimo.org/participants/writersgonnawrite-2784594

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