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Loser No.1

Comic Strip by Vishal K Bharadwaj on Procrastination and Laziness

About NaNoWriMo...

I have never really finished anything I've started on that thing. I've never taken part in the community aspect. I've never really written anything I'd consider stellar (except for my first one, and that was more through sheer momentum of having reached the 30K mark on a story for the first time rather than anything inherent to the event).

Nanowrimo is a good motivational tool to set youself the goal of writing 50K in a month, but it isn't going to write those 50K words for you, if you know what I mean. I think I may do another 'meta-nano' like I did (or attempted to do) last year.

Vishal vs Apartment

Vishal K. Bharadwaj, circa 1986, in the balcony of his family's apartment in Ghusais, Dubai. Photo by either Keshav or Sneha Bharadwaj.
My mother let me draw on walls. It was 1986, I was three, and we were living in a one bedroom apartment in Ghusais, back when there was nothing there except for a block of already decrepit government flats, Al Mulla Plaza (closed because of a border dispute), and a procession of electrical towers between there and Sharjah.

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