Maybe fall will be better...

As much as I was looking forward to it months ago, it looks like the best thing for me to do is bow out of the August session of Camp NaNoWriMo, that I was planning on participating in. It's been a difficult summer real-life-wise, and issues with our mortgage (namely, attempting to refinance it) that I thought were going to be resolved by now most definitely aren't. Given the stress I'm already under, I've realized that I really don't need to add more to it, even for something positive -- and I already have enough works in progress to finish, without putting them all on hold for another month so I can just add another project to the pile.

I considered still participating, but just doing what I can and accepting that I won't cross the 50K word mark to win, but... well, I've done NaNoWriMo three times now and camp once, and won every time, and I hate the thought of just setting myself up to fail -- or worse, winding up determined not to fail whatever the cost to my emotional, mental, and/or physical health.

At this point, I think what I'll do is wait for the original NaNoWriMo in November and try again. By that time, I should be able to have a better idea of what the novel is supposed to be and what's supposed to happen, anyway, since I never had enough time or energy this month to work on brainstorming and outlining the way I wanted to. And by that time, something has to have been figured out that lets us keep the house. :/

So, apologies to my cabin mates, but maybe I'll see some of you in November...