This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.
Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service
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I'm up to 75,000 words on my NaNoWriMo project.
During November, I wrote that I found myself feeling legitimately guilty about the fate which was soon to befall one of the characters in my book. Last week I was writing the chapter in which the fate in question befalls them, and it was a punishing experience. For a solid hour my heart was pounding in nervous anticipation, as the dreaded event drew closer and closer. Once I got to the end of the chapter I had to get up and pace around my apartment for a bit to calm down.
I've repeatedly argued in this space that you shouldn't use an artist's degree of passion and personal investment in their art as a proxy for how good it is. Many of the best novels, films etc. ever made were tossed off by their creators for a paycheck, while probably no one is more emotionally invested in their art than a shut-in composing Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic. But for whatever it's worth, it is indisputable that I've become intensely emotionally invested in this novel. In the event that I get it published, if an artist having a personal stake in their art is important to you, I hope I can count on you picking up a copy.
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