First, some context on my first Camp NaNo participation. I know I must be deranged to consider this because…
I’m having a minor surgery tomorrow. Minor in size, but massive in pains, or so I was told.
I have decided to launch this blog today. It’s kind of missing some bits and bobs but… it is what it is! I am not waiting around for the unforeseen problem, which will show itself more speedily, if I go live right now.
And I’m waiting for a few stuff to evolve, on the personal side. And it’s summer and almost vacations time, so…
Camp NaNo it is!
For some years that I have been subscribing a few (okay! not a few but some) blogs and websites, and yesterday I read something from Robin Sharma that got me thinking on lost time.
Do you know Robin Sharma’s work?
Yes, take it with a grain of salt, but I try looking at it as if I could achieve a more perfect mindset anyhow.
So, it was a list containing ‘The 49 Laws of Monumental Leadership’. And in that massive list of items, what did catch my eye?
N.15 They (leaders) are extremely physically fit because weak health is a massive vulnerability. – Robin Sharma
I agree. And I wish I’d convinced myself of this sooner.
Don’t get me wrong, I know there are tons of other valuable insights on this list but, as I am facing some health hardships for the last hand full of years, and I do know that I was never a disciplined, or even interested, fitness geek this sounded so very true… after all we are supposed to be our own life leaders.
A corporate desk job AND a writer’s desk job has been my perfect storm. And then I added some more stuff. So, now I’m invested in starting slow, but starting nevertheless.
And I started by taking care of issues that I must do something about… and do it fast. So, an operation it is, to avoid more pains throughout all of my foreseeable future.
I know that accumulating is never good. We tend to fill our plates with too much, and then get very upset when we can’t do it all properly.
Except if we are talking about accumulating with Camp NaNo. In this case I am in!!
I figured I needed a boost on my writing, as well as a distracting activity from the rest of the ongoing suff.
I have a story to construct further, and I need this incentive to get back to the construction board, and keep writing.
About Camp NaNo Project
I’ve started this first draft, called ‘The Shapeshifters’ on #the100dayproject in 2021. Continued with my second draft on NaNoWriMo of 2021. And now I’m hoping July’s Camp NaNo will help me get through an icky kind of third draft.
You see, I have focused too much on the main story, and didn’t pay due much attention to a good placement of subplots , or the evolving characters that surrounded my hero.
Even my main character is kind of lost in all that, and needing my help to get things sorted out.
So I plan to do that on Camp, and maybe I will be able to rewrite the entire book, or who know’s, start the second book of this series in November.
Ah!!! it’s so nice to dream!
I do not know how it’ll go. But I will try all of this out. Can I master more physical pain?!? I don’t know!!! LOL
But I sure as hell will have to try!
So… are you doing Camp NaNo? On what project will you be working on? Do you find health issues distracting from your writing?
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Bye and see you soon.