Why I'm NOT doing NaNoWriMo (and what I'm doing instead) 

That's awesome! What a success story.

wow dude. awesome.

Whoa, that's awesome. Great work!

Dude, that's epic. 53k words in a month is astounding progress. Keep it up! (And I can tell you're just jealous...)

@@creativewritingcorner I think I would do well in prison. Other than that not a joke-joke, thank you for the kind words. I want to clarify and give you context on this accomplishment. Although I can get full time work, I am spending most of my time every day on my writing. I wrote a novel's worth last year all of short stories. For money, I make 200 a week odd jobs as well as have a ten dollar a day undercover uber where I get this guy his daily beer. With going to the food pantry and being extra tight with my money, I make it work. And the suffering I feel for not having much material comforts is made up tenfold by me being able to write full time. I have a dog and I take him on walks every day for two hours. I write off a lot of my time online because I come up with jokes and material, (Like how I do with your platform. I make the same joke over and over again in different ways to sharpen my improv comedy chops, and I definitely got them). I am a little full of myself as an author, in that I know I am going to make it, one way or the other. Last year was practice, and also me learning this valuable lesson, "Don't waste your time promoting or formatting a book or even copy editing that hard, just write the material." My weak promotional attempts did nothing, just maybe garnered RU-vid views, where I read my work. I had self-publish pipe dreams, like it would be discovered right away and I would become a full time author really fast, you know, the usual delusions. I had the joy of pushing the publishing button several times with Amazon, but until I have the funds for a book launch or some marketing my work will stay burried. I jumped into wrtinng all of a sudden (Something I always wanted to do but never did til now) so I am just now meeting people. As I said, this was a short story that turned into a novel. I have had great luck at not having too many blocks, and am feeling good about the novel. No lie, out of 53,000 there are probably 8000 misspelled words. I am confident in the book enough to try trad this time. I made a lot of mistakes when I first got into this, including losing 700 dollars to scammer formatters. I still have books that have generic covers, which makes KU people think AI. I should have sent those stories off to contests and collections, and now since it is self-published trads and contests don't want them. So I am not worried about self-pub anymore. I can send anything off to anywhere I want now, and made a huge mistake self-publishing a recent 2200 word piece, I think one of my greatest. I can also self-publish if I get tired of rejections. At 54,000 now, and excited about querying trads. As I query I will go back to finish and write a few short stories while I query. It is going to work out, only a matter of time. If not I am going to write anyway and then I must have been before my time. Thanks for being a good sport. Satire!

Sounds awesome! Channel name?

@@creativewritingcorner thanks for the response. Really appreciated. The channel is called 'the horror story corner' and my name is Stephen Sinclair. I would probably start with the second story. One of my favourites. Was fun to do. Please enjoy. Happy to answer questions etc.

@@creativewritingcorner obviously I mean the "stephen sinclair playlist". (note to good old YT info was requested)

As I read during month . Website provides participants called wrimo with rules of writer block , information where local participants are meeting and online community of support focusing on length and d work rather then quality, writer encouraged to finish their first draft quickly so it can be edited later at their discretion.on project website where the authors they can post their profiles and information about their novels including synopses and excerpts. Regional volunteers called municipal liaisons help connect local writers, hold in person and virtual writing events and provide encouragement. In my opinion the quality of literary work much better than length . I prefer to read useful short stories than long silly novel .