# I finally got the native Time Machine service working on my NAS but it's getting old and clunky, and didn't sound too happy about being spun up for so long during the initial backup. Hopefully it'll be okay now that everything is incremental.
# Knowing that I want to do something with my writing this year my eldest daughter suggested I take part in NaNoWriMo.
"Big idea" panic and self doubt immediately set in. What would I write about? How could I possibly say 50 thousand words about something?
She replied that "prep doesn't start until October, you've got loads of time."
By golly she's right!
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"Your smartphone makes you quick, not smart. "Every time you pick up your quickphone, you stop inventing and begin transacting instead."
Often that's true. The "quickphone" becomes a mechanism for filling those idle moments, then a distraction from what we should be doing as those idle moments spill over.
That need not be the case.
The device is just a dumb tool, a container for whatever we wish to load it with. If we put garbage in we'll just get garbage out.
But, if we clear out our garbage we are left with a world of possibilities. Just because it's a small slab of glass and metal sat in our hands that doesn't mean we can't be expressive, creative, inventive.
@colinwalker If you can organize some time everyday it’s real fun! You don’t even have to have a real idea if you should not find anything. Just write, the rest follows ? Go for it!
@colinwalker last year I really wanted to take part in NaNoWriMo, I was in a flow. I had an idea in mind. I had started prep, with some stories with the characters and the setting. Just couldn’t close it. I am planning to attempt again this year.
@amit @hutaffe I think I’ve got an idea, it’s non-fiction but don’t want to say too much at the moment. I’ll mull it over for a while and see where I can take it. And if I don’t finish it in a month so what.
@amit @hutaffe I think I might have just written the first 250 words!
@colinwalker Great! It all starts slow ??
@colinwalker ?? Your November starts early ?
@colinwalker It’s a fun thing to do! The key is making sure you have a specific daily time set aside to write. Everyone I know that does that generally finishes. My challenge is always a lack of discipline. Either way, finish or not, you always walk away with a huge chunk of your book finished and are able to continue! ?
@EddieHinkle I work shifts so it will have to be a set “relative” time, probably during my commute.
@amit helping writers build stories is my thing. I wrote a series of articles about Building Your Novel for NaNoWriMo on my site. Hope it helps inspire you & others ?
@jhull This is great James. Thank you for sharing this. I think I will need a lot of inspiration and help to complete this. So I know now who to reach out to ??