NaNoWriMo 2009: Motivation and Donation

I picked up Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing (review to come, probably) this past November, when our NaNo group made the distracting choice of holding our meetings in bookstores.

I read it exuberantly, excitedly, and to the detriment of my writing.  Thus, it was set aside, and now, I have it back.

Besides the fact that every word of this book makes me want to write, I have just discovered this year’s motivation, and a donation tool, all in one.

I have only begun Bradbury’s essay on his time spent writing Fahrenheit 451, so I can’t comment on the essay itself.

What has my attention is the way it was written, on a typewriter in the library of the University of California at Los Angeles that cost him a dime for a half-hour’s use.  When he commented that this cost pushed him to write more quickly, it all clicked.

I wonder what my NaNo novel would cost, at the rate of a dime a half hour?  Would I write more quickly (of course!)?  And how lovely it would be to have that nice donation to make!

The problem with this, unless I can cure it in the next ten months, is that I am patently incapable of sitting and writing, just writing, and I therefore never have any idea of how much acutal time I spend on a project.  I will figure this out, somehow.

Happy Writing!