I really appreciate the folks at NaNoWriMo. Look, I know the objections: real writers don't need this artificial deadline stuff. We don't need more people dallying with writing--we need more REAL WRITERS. And so and and so much more folderol. Sure, whatever. But I like it. First of all, it comes at a perfect time: right when football season is ending (this year, by an odd coincidence, football season ended for me the night before, which meant I was writing the very next day). Second of all, some of us who aren't REAL WRITERS could do with a sort of literary goose, if you'll pardon the expression. Even if you won't. Third, up yours. I don't need to explain myself to you and why I appreciate NaNoWriMo, and why I like the frothy little pep talks and merchandise and the whole thing. I guess I've come to really appreciate earnestness in my late middle age (I won't call it old age, so stop murmuring under your breath). And the NaNoWriMo people are nothing if not earnest.
Maybe it's a Trump thing. Liking earnestness, I mean. Appreciating the guy who cheerfully says, "enjoy your coffee and have a super day!" and really seems to mean it. When I say "it's a Trump thing" don't for a fucking minute think I believe he is earnest. No, I mean with the chaotic evil administration and the darkness and the thin layer of corn-fed shit that seems to be all over everything American these days, I guess I've come to really appreciate the dogged determination to be goddam cheerful.
Dogged is right--my little pups (Rocky the spunky, delicate papillon and Eddie the slightly stupid but staunch pug) are as earnest as they come. No pretense or irony in a puppy, is there? They wear their emotions on their sleeves (can you say that about dogs?) and are unashamedly themselves. That's a lot of what I love about them.
And that's what I love about NaNoWriMo. It's very much itself and happy to be it. Hard to argue with that philosophy, isn't it?
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Maybe it's a Trump thing. Liking earnestness, I mean. Appreciating the guy who cheerfully says, "enjoy your coffee and have a super day!" and really seems to mean it. When I say "it's a Trump thing" don't for a fucking minute think I believe he is earnest. No, I mean with the chaotic evil administration and the darkness and the thin layer of corn-fed shit that seems to be all over everything American these days, I guess I've come to really appreciate the dogged determination to be goddam cheerful.
Dogged is right--my little pups (Rocky the spunky, delicate papillon and Eddie the slightly stupid but staunch pug) are as earnest as they come. No pretense or irony in a puppy, is there? They wear their emotions on their sleeves (can you say that about dogs?) and are unashamedly themselves. That's a lot of what I love about them.
And that's what I love about NaNoWriMo. It's very much itself and happy to be it. Hard to argue with that philosophy, isn't it?
Be seeing you!
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