So, it's day 3 (technically, day 4 now) and I've just started my Screnzy. That means I'm 10 pages behind already. And that is the main reason why I'm up at 1am when I'm normally asleep by 10pm (because I'm such a party animal like that).
Script Frenzy and Nanowrimo are very important especially for teenagers, I think, because they give a good insight in to the adult world. Staying up later than possible even with caffeine (I've been up way later than this for Nano before...), frantically working away to hit that nigh on impossible deadline.
Drowsiness both hinders and helps the creative process I think. It helps because, at that point, you are too tired to really care what you are writing (like this) so at least you get stuff done, and who knows, the ramblings you end up with might be entertaining. The downsides are that, asides from writing complete rubbish, you also end up with some many spelling errors that even the good text is uncipherable, and there is the serious risk of falling asleep on the keyboard and filling 100 pages with one repeated letter.
But after Script Frenzy or Nano, when I've slept off all my writing time, life suddenly feels so much longer. When you are no longer spending at least 3 hours a day writing (Yes, it takes me forever.), you suddenly get a lot more time to socialise, chill and, best of all, sleep.
In the future, I'm inevitably going to end up in situations where I have to do things wih very little sleep (I'm going to become nocturnal for uni - it's when I get most done!) and I feel as if I now have a solid foundation to build on. So thank you Script Frenzy and Nano, for preparing me for the real world where a day is 24 hours too short.
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