Who else can't wait ?

Ha ha isn't is amazing how that works ?!

Okay, but here is the thing... on the 1st, no changing sheets and doing dishes , okay ? You actually have to sit down and write ! Housework is the bait of female writers !!!!

Usually I am the world's worst procrastinator. Despite the nagging feeling that I should be writing all of the time, there's always sheets to change, dishes to clean, websites to surf...

But now, for the first time in my life, someone is saying that I'm not allowed to write yet and all I want to do is get the words down.

Hey, this reverse psychology is working a treat. Is it still only the 30th?

I've been trying to keep my ideas in my head...but my brain is made mostly of Swiss cheese and I am afraid of the best ideas falling through the holes.

If I can make an outline, I can keep the ideas safe for the next couple of days...this is very good news.

Outlining is not cheating. :)

Writing dialogue before November 1st is. You're right on track. :)

I'll bear with the program this time...I won't actually begin writing the main document yet. All I've done so far is outline a bit on the musical number conceptions.

I have technically already begun the play I'll be working on, but I usually "complete" my projects very quickly...at least, the first draft. I shall go back again and again for over four or more drafts before my projects are entirely satisfactory. I didn't even join Nanowrimo last year, and I wrote the first draft of my novel in about a month...but completed it another two months or so later. It's just how I work. I don't consider what I am doing cheating...it is more brainstorming on paper. If anyone disagrees with me, I am willing to consider quitting quit until November arrives.

I agree - small is good. Small is family. Small is kitchen table. Small is the booth at the pub. Small is enough to fit around the campfire. Small is a bunch of noisy exuberant fledglings.

Woo hooo!

Shelley

It's a paradox for me, I both can and cannot wait. I did it last year, or should I say attempted. But I am not a quitter and solemnly swear to stick it out for the whole month this time around, and finish at least one draft of the play I plan to write. The idea is fermenting in my mind, my fingers are itching to write even the first line. But I will be a good playwright and wait.

After all, chewing on the blank screen seems to take up more time, along with agonizing and self-editing to the point of creative constipation...however, we shall see. I am looking forward, as a Baby Rhino on my first attempt, to seeing how the support of other Playwrights on Safari will feel.

Tick tick tick...

I've already written the first scene... IN MY HEAD. I don't cheat!

... and rejects them like an impatient fashionista dismisses possible outifts for a first date on the train ride home from work...