What have you sacrificed to be part of nanowrimo?

god... nothing like that!

I still work by 8hr a weekday... if i have to, i still cook when i get home (bein single, any given cooked meal usually lasts for 4 sittings (be it any combination of lunch and dinner) ...

you know what... i just simply play less games... taking on the responsibility of getting this goal done, also seems to be rubbing off around the apartment... things are cleaner (not that they ever get THAT dirty) ... laundry never gets quite to the point of overflowing the bin... dishes don't sit in the sink very long...

its actually rather weird

MSN, AIM and forum time. :( I MISS IT!!!!

Reading, mostly. I love reading more than pretty much any other activity in existence, and I let myself read a couple hours yesterday and today, but other than that, nothing all month.

I've also shortened cuddle time with my fiance, time spent on homework (which is bad, but oh well), the number of times I cook dinner, and video games. Haven't played video games all month either, not even Rock Band, and both my fiance and I are pretty heavy gamers.

Only dead fish swim WITH the stream.

I've given up watching anime and drawing. The lack of drawing is getting to me...I was trying to draw everyday and then to just suddenly stop...it still feels weird. :\

I kind of can't wait to hit 50k because then I can return to my drawing.

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
~Jack London

Honestly, I haven't let too much go. I haven't watched "The Daily Show" in awhile because I'm usually writing then; before NaNo I watched it pretty much every night. Also, I've cut back on two hour evening phone calls, and I've let a little clutter build up around my apartment.

Otherwise, I've just been trying to fit in my writing without giving up my life.

Exercising (really, it's just an excuse to be lazy. But I haven't put as much time in this month as I vowed I would. Shame on me).

Watching movies. I've had the same Netflix all month long.

Video Games. I want Animal Crossing City Folk so badly.

Reading. I usually take at least an hour at night to read and read on my lunch break at work, but I use this time to write instead.

My grade in Algebra II. (well, okay... it's not JUST nanowrimo in this case)
Sleep.
Thought processes involving anything other than my novel.

Yay for staying up until obscenely late hours, C's on tests, and spending entire class periods day dreaming about scenes I would really like to write.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

School work and essays that are due two weeks into December. I'm pretty safe on those since I have those two weeks, so here's hoping I don't spend all that time editing! Gah. xD

Other than that I've been neglecting my art. It feels so good to sketch, even if it's only for class or my novel...

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Some sleep... and I've been eating a lot more sugar to keep me going. Gave up time with friends sometimes... but for the most part, NaNo has given to me.

I'm writing a novel, and it's actually brought me closer to my parents who are all for me getting this done.

Dance, you're a writer!

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My lunch breaks at work.

Food variety - eating very much the same stuff every day (for ease of cooking and shopping).

My Wednesday yoga practice at home, and, last Saturday, even my yoga class. That was the hardest.

Reading (though I've been sneaking a page here and there).

Any cleaning that is not absolutely essential to the survival of the species. My rain soaked dog came to bed one night, I've changed the sheets two days later. When it stopped raining. But that's just being practical, isn't it?

I have hardly done any yoga or gone for walks outside anymore (ok, it is also pretty cold right now)
And I miss doing my handcrafts, and playing with my tarot cards.

Though leaves are many, the root is one.
W.B. Yeats

My health, my sleep, time with my kids, my health, sleep, sleep, and sleep

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Nothing.

I do whatever I would normally do, but I choose to write in my spare time instead of watch mindless programmes on TV. I don't have the feeling that I have sacrificed anything in order to be a part of NaNo. My wordcount reflects that laissez-faire attitude, which I've adopted because I feel that writing should be as fun as possible and not a chore you have to do. I take an hour or two a day, sometimes more during the weekend, to write something and then go and do something else again.

Sleep deffinitely, the only time I can seem to write is after 12 o'clock at night.
My homework, hehe, but I never got much of that anyway. I'll do it all in a week I promise.
Television too, I'm so behind on my tv shows its not even funny anymore, I don't know when I'll find the time to catch up.
I just want to finish now, I hate having guilt monkeys telling me I should be spending my time more wisely than writing my novel. I wish they would shut up.

My precious reading time :O

And time with my beloved family and friends. I've also sacrificed extra snacks throughout the day time (but only because I'm so caught up in my writing that I forget to eat much besides meals.)

I haven't given up Anime Club, Creative Writing Club, the school play (Vacancy in Paradise) I watched last night, and the movie, Twilight (which I shall see this afternoon.)

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe.

Hah. I've given up a lot of reading and watching anime. I've completely given up fan fiction writing and video making. If only I could give up school, this novel would probably be done! I have sacrificed my sanity and my conversation--I can't hold a thought down for more than ten seconds before it goes back to my novel. However, I've always spent a lot of time writing, so I can't say I've made too many major sacrifices.

Well, up til now, I've sacrificed fourteen chickens, two goats, a stray dog, nineteen lost trick or treaters, and half a pig. Those words aren't free, you know.

It works great, for a while. But eventually the blood that had lubricated the keyboard, enabling quick, easy writing begins to clot and coagulate, the keys begin to stick, then they stop working at all. Setting the sacrifices on fire only irritates the neighbors with all the smoke alarms. But I'll take it.

My soul.

Just kidding. I've sacrificed time to go running, my few hours of reading time, sleep time, and the time in school that I pay attention to the teachers. I write while pretending to take notes.

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I was surprised at first at how little time NaNo seemed to take out of my life. Most of my writing has taken place in libraries, while my significant other checks his mail on the computer, so I would have been there anyway.
Then I realized that I haven't been to the gym since the end of October. And that I've been writing on my lunch hour at work instead of reading.
So, yes, I have given up things I enjoy. But only for one more week!

"We're all one family. Some of us suck blood and some of us carry sharpened stakes, just in case, but we all get along okay. Well, most of the time."

Boys Need A Mother
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Sleep and sanity would be the two main things.
I'm also pretty sure that my grades in school have gone down a teeny tiny bit since November 1. My family probably misses me, I'm sure.

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'08 - Neoma (and shorter stories that were never finished) - won

My sanity *weeps*

This sounds exactly like my husband and I. I miss cuddles, gaming, and my beloved books (there's a stack of 18 'to be read' books right next to me on my desk as I type). I also think Fable 2 & Guitar Hero: World Tour have gone off to sulk from loneliness together.

Sleep, forum time, and the abiliy to concentrate on anything without my story intruding! But hey. Nothing too drastic for which I am grateful.

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Posting on my favorite internet forum. And studying for tests, but that's not such a big sacrifice XD

I don't think I sacrificed anything, because I was already sacrificing important things to do unimportant things. I used to watch movies and youTube videos instead of homework, now I write my novel instead of homework. My AP Calc grade was sacrificed long ago, simply because I've always been lazy about homework. Then again, I'm one percent away from a B, which is good for an AP class. It's really not bad at all.
Yeah, I'm simply replacing the things I usually use to distract myself with noveling. Noveling is way better.
I'm even more busy this month with other things, too, such as color guard, and starting a show (Into the Woods - Sondheim is my favorite).

Now I remember - there had to be something I was giving up... my parents' approval. My dad was actually upset when I said I wrote 6687 words in one day. :-(

I wrote 1131 words in 30 minutes with Dr. Wicked's "Write or Die."
You can, too.

The most important (to me) thing I've given up is my daily reading time. I've also given up daily walks and all social contact, except my weekly writing group. All that was probably not necessary, but I think I needed it for focus.

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MMOs, which I not only play but sometimes I just log in to chat with my friends. Other writing projects. My video projects. lots of video games and daydreaming.

My writing brain may explode when this is done. O_o

Almost all reading time.
At the start of the month I was behind on my paperwork and my house was fairly untidy. Now I am one more month behind on said admin stuff, and the house is in the aftermath of a swirling tornado of paper. I'm in the middle of giving a course of six seminars, of which I'm writing four, and have just taken paper art works to a craft fair, so all the preparatory work for this stuff, and the studying I am doing including for an exam ten days ago, and the paperwork about vocations, and the business I am setting up, are all in random collapsing heaps everywhere. It's got so I am actually wanting to write "The End" and deal with it.
Some of my exercise time.
Any idea of serious cooking more than once a week.

Cooking, cleaning, long showers, some hanging with my boyfriend (it doesn't help that he insults my male MC, even though said MC *does* give my boyfriend a run for the money on the hotness scale), and sleep. I wake up forty minutes extra in the morning to write before my full-time job.

I've also given up on having conversations that don't start off with "Guess how many words I've written?" or "What the hell is wrong with Deren?" (My MC).

To afford my donation, I also gave up central heating and snacks, and I've bowed out of a couple get-togethers with my friends for lack of available funds. =) I also pack more stuff into the pay-per-use laundry machines each time. haha.

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Despite my username, I really am female.

NaNo04: Dawnheart Tane - win
NaNo05: untitled - win
NaNo06: Giving Up It All / Half the Man - win
NaNo07 : The Ocean Between Us - unofficial win
NaNo08 : Dog Fight / Dog Run - win

I sacrificed:

My sanity, my homework, my game-time, my tv-time and a part of my sleep-time.

"Of all the things I've lost, it's my mind I miss the most." - someone whose name I forgot...

NaNoWriMo 2006: Natalia's Journey (won!)
NaNoWriMo 2007: The Pride of King Julius (won!)
NaNoWriMo 2008: Hatoshi's Reality

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