How is 2021 treating everyone? I have to say that so far, the new year has been pretty great for me.
I could see how someone could look at my week 18 total and think that I had a bad week, but that’s not the case. You see, the first three days in the week happened to also be the last three days in December. Since I had already reached my December goal, I decided to give myself a little break before the new year. So, it was a planned break, and I’m not actually behind at all. In fact, for both January and the year, I am ahead.
I told you before that I love New Year’s resolutions, and the first few days of this year are an example of why.
In November and December, I was foundering. I had lost focus for Milwordy and I considered giving up several times. I made it through, but it was through sheer grit and determination—not because I was feeling passionate about writing or this challenge.
But then January hit and I haven’t felt this focused since September. I know it’s still early; Maybe this boost in energy won’t even last through next week. But honestly, I’m just so happy that it’s happened at all that I’m not going to be looking a gift horse in the mouth.
So, what did I learn this week?
New Year’s resolutions are awesome—okay, no I already knew that. But they’ve been a big help in getting me back on track. I am aware that I’m going to have to harness this energy again. I’m sure that a couple of months down the line (if not sooner) I’m going to be feeling the way I was in December, and there’s not another New Year’s coming up before the end of Milwordy. So…I’m going to have to figure that out. But it’s good that I know that now so I can start making a plan.
I learned that slower writing can sometimes be better writing. Not always. In fact, I often find that when I look back and compare things that I’ve written quickly vs. things I’ve written slowly, the things I’ve written quickly are better. I mean, they usually have more errors, for sure, but they also tend to be a bit punchier with better dialogue and more interesting actions. I don’t know why this is other than writing fast seems to tap into my more creative brain. Maybe when I write slow, I just let myself get bogged down in my own insecurities about writing. I don’t know. In any case, fast drafting usually works for me.
But this week, I was working on a novel that I had started before Milwordy, but kind of abandoned, and I was writing slow. Or, well, slow for me. And it was a real joy. And it didn’t make the writing worse—at least I don’t think so, though I can’t be sure until I’ve had enough time away from it to come back and reread it.
I think the reason why writing slowly on this particular project is working is because I’m enjoying it so much. I usually need to work fast to get into the flow of writing, but with this project that seems to happen no matter at what speed I’m going. So, I’m pretty happy with that.
That’s it for this week. I hope 2021 is treating you right. I hope that we all have a better year than we did in 2020. If you have any comments or questions, don’t hesitate to send them along in the comments.
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Since I’ve made it through 1/3rd of this challenge we call Milwordy, I thought I’d give you guys some insight on what tools have been helping me through the process. I’m not saying that you couldn’t write a million words without these things; I’m saying that I couldn’t.
Well, at least these are the things that have made it easier. I’m sure that with enough determination I could do this challenge with nothing more than a pen and a lot of paper, but…yikes! Would I want to?
Anyway, I’ve made a list of my favorite tools for you to peruse and see if any of them would work for you.
Microsoft Excel
It may seem like a weird tool when we’re talking about a writing challenge, but the monthly spreadsheets I made before the challenge started have been a surprisingly motivating factor for me. The conditional formatting that changes my daily word counts from gray to whatever that months theme color is (January is blue) dings a little area in my brain that makes me want to see the color change. That is just a little extra incentive for me to hit those daily word counts.
Also, it’s obviously important to have a way to track all these words I’ve been writing and the truly nice thing about Excel is that it will do the math for me. Such a treat! Plus, it makes it easy for me to look back and see which projects I worked on during the challenge, which is something that usually gets a bit messy for me. I’m also tracking the amount of time I spend writing each day, as well as the time of day so that I can get a better idea of if I’m more productive in the mornings, afternoons, or evenings.
My Bullet Journal
It didn’t have to be a bullet journal exactly, but I definitely needed something to keep me organized. I have my calendar spread which lets me make notes and plan for days when I might not be able to write. I also keep track of my blog posts there. And I do have a spread each month to keep track of my words—though not in the same detail as the spreadsheet. This may seem a little redundant, but I really enjoy being able to keep track of my progress in a physical rather than digital form. Plus, it gives me a chance to be a little artistic, which can be a nice break from all the writing.
Basically, how it works is I draw a different themed spread every month and I leave parts of it uncolored, so that I can color them in for every 2,740 words (that’s my daily Milwordy goal). There’s not so much math involved and it’s fun to see the picture get colored in as the month wears on.
Write or Die
If you don’t know about Write or Die, you can check it out at their website here. Basically, it’s a program that allows you to do timed writing sprints and reminds you (gently or forcefully, you choose) to keep writing. I have the program downloaded to my computer and it’s pretty great. I don’t like to use it for all my writing, but on days when I know I don’t have a lot of time to write, it helps keep me focused and pushes me to write faster so that I can get all those words in. Plus, it has helped me figure out what my typical writing speed is so that I can better plan for how long writing a particular number of words will take me.
Dragon Dictation
This one is pretty new to me, but let me tell you it has been a life-saver.
Again, I don’t like to use this for everything. It’s relatively accurate, but definitely not perfect. Plus, I feel really weird speaking my writing out loud. Still, I can write much faster through dictation than I can through typing. To give you an idea, if I were to write for an hour in Write or Die, at my absolute top speed, I can get about 3,000 words in. And if I’m being honest, that doesn’t happen that often. That’s me pushing myself to my absolute limit, and usually I would have to break for a long time afterward. More reliably, I could get about 2,000 words in an hour.
An hour’s worth of dictation, on the other hand, will reliably net me between 4,000-5,000 words. And my absolute top speed got me to 5,500 words in an hour! An I don’t feel so completely exhausted after. Plus, I can get up and walk around if I like, which is a big plus for me. I think that I might even be able to get this count higher if I tried it with an extensively detailed outline, though I’m not absolutely certain about that.
If you’ve been keeping up with this blog, you’ll remember that in December I had a 23,000-word day to catch up after I had fallen behind. There’s no way I could have done that with typing alone. Dragon absolutely saved the day.
Music Apps (Pandora, Spotify, Amazon Music)
I already made a blog post about how important music is to my writing, so I’m not going to wax poetical about it here. I just thought that the music apps I’ve been using deserved a little nod.
The nice thing about these music apps is that I can listen to music without having to own it. Sure, they come with commercials (if you don’t pay for premium, which I do not), but that’s a small price to pay for getting to listen to nearly limitless music without having to own any of it.
Not that I don’t enjoy listening to the music I actually own, but sometimes I need something specific that I don’t have. For instance, during the month of October I was working on a Halloween short story. Being able to tune into a Halloween station that I didn’t have to curate myself was a HUGE help. Plus, it really got me in the mood for the holiday.
Wrist Rests
I had some serious problems with my wrists at the beginning of this challenge. Like, so much so that I thought I might have to quit. Dictating some of my words helps, but I still generally prefer typing, so that’s what I do most of the time. So, I invested in wrist rests. One goes in front of my keyboard and the other in front of my mouse. They have helped tremendously, as well as trying to be more aware of my posture while sitting at my desk. I still get a little pain on big writing days, but it’s nothing like it was in the beginning
This Blog
It didn’t have to be a blog, but what I mean by this is that having accountability to someone other than myself has pushed me ever forward. If I had decided to embark on this challenge without ever telling a soul, I would have quit already. I’m not even sure I would have made it through the first month, and I know I wouldn’t have made it through December. Knowing that there are people out there following this blog reminds me every day that I need to keep going and for that I thank anyone who is reading this, but especially those of you who have taken precious time out of your day to like, comment, and follow. You keep me on track.
I’d also be remiss not to mention my husband here, who asks me how I’m doing with this challenge every day, and is always ready with encouraging words. If you take one thing away from my experience, let it be this: Having support and accountability is the best way to see yourself through this kind of challenge. Even though you are ultimately the one doing all the work, you aren’t actually alone. That makes all the difference in the world.
What are your favorite tools for writing? Do you have any that you feel you just can’t write without? Let me know down in the comments!
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Good morning! It’s a new year and I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for a fresh start! And what better way to get a fresh start than to talk about New Year’s resolutions?
Don’t roll your eyes at me. We’re doing this!
I love New Year’s resolutions. I know that it’s pretty much a cliché at this point to make lofty goals that you are almost certainly never going to stick with. I mean, National Quitters Day (the day people are most likely to give up on their New Year’s resolutions) is January 17th. Most of us can’t even make it three weeks, let alone a full year. I am no stranger to this phenomenon.
So, why do I like New Year’s resolutions? Well, the thing is that while I have failed many, many times in my life, there have also been a number of occasions in which I’ve succeeded.
One year I gave up caffeine and managed not to drink it again for nearly four years. Okay, yes, eventually I went back, but four years is pretty good, you must agree.
One year I vowed to organize my home, and while I did give up a few months in, many of the spaces I organized have remained so, even several years on.
And one year I said I would write every single day, holidays and all, and you know what? I did just that. And that was the only year I participated in—and won—all three NaNoWriMo sessions. I wrote three separate novels that year, which at the time was a pretty big deal for me. Milwordy was not yet a glimmer in my eye. In fact, if I hadn’t made it through that year, I don’t think I would have had the confidence, or the mental tools, to give Milwordy a try.
So, in spite of all the failures, I’ve had some real wins. Even when I don’t make it through the full year, I often make some real progress that sticks with me.
That brings me to my 2021 goals. It’s been hard for me to pick out resolutions for the coming year because I sort of feel like my big project is finishing Milwordy. I can’t exactly call it a New Year’s resolution, can I? I started last September! Of course, I am resolved to continue on, and reach the million-word mark, but it feels weird making that a resolution when it’s already in progress.
I considered vowing to write every day, but I don’t actually think that’s a good goal for me this time around. Because I have to write so many words, I’m finding that having a couple days off is an important use of my time.
I don’t even necessarily feel like I’m in a place where I can say, I will completely finish X project before the year is over, because with Milwordy I’ve found that the only way to power through is to follow the path my brain wants to take me on. If I force myself to finish a certain project, it may end up meaning that I stall on my word count. Plus finishing a project means revising it, and I still haven’t quite figured out how to fit revision into my Milwordy work—not extensive revision. I don’t know that I can commit to a long-term revision project during the Milwordy challenge.
So, what am I going to resolve to do for the new year?
First, I want to keep up with this blog more regularly. In particular, I want to make sure that I’m getting my weekly update out every Tuesday. I’ve gotten kind of lax with that. I would also like to put out at least one additional post each week. So that’s my first goal: Publish two blog posts a week, including one Milwordy update every Tuesday.
Second, I want to get back into a good groove with social media. I’ve pretty much let Instagram slide entirely and my Twitter posts are sporadic at best. Yet, I don’t think the way I was doing it back in September was a good long-term plan for me. I was posting to Instagram twice a day for a few weeks there, which was just too much to keep up with. I’d like to post there 2-3 times a week. On Twitter, I would like to post 1 time a day. This is the resolution that I think that I’m most likely to break, but I’m going to give it a try.
And finally, I’d like by the end of the year to have found myself a critique partner. This is something I’ve never done before because I’ve always been a bit shy about sharing my work. I’m also just shy in general, so finding someone to partner with has always seemed daunting. Especially trying to find someone that has both a similar skill level and a similar taste in genre. But I sort of feel like I’m at the point in my writing that I can’t improve further without outside help, so this seems like an important step. I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to start searching for a partner immediately, or if I want to wait until later in the year when Milwordy is over. Then I’ll have more time that’s not entirely devoted to putting as many words to paper as I can, so I can focus on someone else’s project as well. But I’m hoping that by December 31st, 2021, I will have found myself a fitting critique partner.
I have some other non-writing goals: reading goals, exercise goals, organizing goals, but I figured you guys wouldn’t necessarily want to hear about those. Basically, what I’m telling you is that I have a lot of goals. I’m certain that I won’t be able to reach all of them, but I do think having something to reach for is important—even if you don’t end up grasping it in the end.
Are you making any resolutions this year? What are they? Are you in the habit of following through on your goals, or are you planning on celebrating Quitters Day on January 17th? Let me know down in the comments!
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I’m calling the first third of the Milwordy challenge a success.
You heard me…read me…I am officially 1/3rd of the way through Milwordy and I’m actually ahead of schedule as far as word count goes.
I think one of the biggest things I learned about myself this month is that I tend to judge my success in an endeavor, not by my actual progress, but by how I feel about it. You see, I got way behind in December…sort of. I never actually dropped behind on my year-long goal because I had gotten such a head start in September and October. But I was, at one point, nearly 20k behind on my December goal, and in spite of being on track for the total Milwordy goal, I felt like such a failure. I began panicking that I was going to lose this challenge after having worked hard for nearly 4 months.
And then I had a 23k word day.
Oh yeah, you read that right, 23k words.
Looking back, that was a ridiculous thing to do. I mean, the chances of those 23k words being any good are miniscule. It doesn’t totally matter, because much of it was discovery writing/brainstorming work anyway, so it didn’t have to be good…it just had to help me learn more about my characters and plot. Still, why did I feel the need to do that?
Because I didn’t want to feel like a failure. Also, because I’m obsessed with my Milwordy spreadsheet and the way that the cell for each month’s total word count will only turn to (my favorite) purple if I hit my goal and I couldn’t bear to miss a month. Yeah, I know, weird motivation, but seriously would it be right to leave it red?
So, I scrambled to get as many words in one day as I possibly could. I didn’t even know it was possible for me to get that many words in one day, and admittedly, I probably wouldn’t have been able to do it if I hadn’t been using a dictation app. There’s no way my wrists could handle 23k words in a day. They can barely handle 3k.
The thing is, I need to learn not to be so hard on myself. I mean, I need to be a little hard on myself in order to do a challenge like this. If I’m too lenient, I know from experience, I will not finish it. However, there really was no reason for me to feel so badly about my progress this month that I needed to write 23k words in one day. So, I’ll be working on that.
Maybe.
I’ll start with saying that in December I managed, not only to reach my monthly goal and have the largest word count day I’ve had in my entire life (by a wide margin), but I also managed to finish my NaNoWriMo novel, restart an old novel that I’m absolutely in love with, write a whopping 42k worth of discovery writing for a brand-new project, and keep up with this blog (barely). That’s all pretty good as far as productivity goes and something to be proud of (even if saying that I should be proud of it gives me a sense of embarrassment and discontent—working on it).
Not only am I headed into the 5th month of Milwordy, but we’re all headed into a new year. It’s a time for fresh starts. Let’s all agree to let our 2020 baggage go as much as possible and work toward a brighter future!
Did you get a lot done in December? How about 2020 as a whole? I know it was a rough year—for basically the whole world—but I hope that you were able to make the most of it. And I hope that we’re all about to have an amazing 2021!
You can see those stats. Not only did I not catch up from my poor showing last week, but I didn’t even reach my regular weekly quota. I’m now behind by over 15k for the month of December, which feels insurmountable with the holidays coming.
I have no idea what happened here. I am in full on panic mode about it though, because I can’t keep going this way if I want to succeed at Milwordy. And yet, I can’t seem to force myself back into a respectable writing schedule.
I feel…tired. And a little out of ideas, which is unusual for me to be honest. Usually I have more ideas than I can force myself to sit down and write. Now I feel like a well that’s dried up.
I don’t know if this is just a slump. I don’t know if it’s caused by a lack of interest in my current projects. I don’t know if this is the natural result of trying such a demanding challenge. Is burnout inevitable? I just don’t know. Which means that I don’t know how to fix it.
I wrote a post earlier in my blog about writer’s block. I came to the conclusion in that post that you have to figure out why you are having trouble writing in order to fix the problem. But how does that help if you can’t figure out why you’re having trouble in the first place?
Ah!
Anyway, this week I learned that getting behind is bad for morale which inevitably leads to getting further behind. So, I guess the moral of this story is, always try to stay ahead.
PS: I’m posting this a little late because of Christmas. Those of you that follow me on Twitter will know that this post is not exactly accurate to where I am now in the challenge. I wrote it before I had a giant writing day on the day before Christmas Eve, so we’ll talk about that for my Week 17 post, which I’m pretty excited for. Until then, just know that writing is going much better for me now and I’m eager to head into the New Year.
December Total Wordcount: 25,712 (not where I wanted to be)
Year Total Wordcount: 300,694 (OVER 300K! WOO!)
Words to go:
December: 57,622 (I can still do this! Christmas looms large though)
Year: 699,306 (So. Many. More. Words.)
Okay.
Technically, I’m still ahead. For the year. For December, I am horribly behind.
I know that being sick is actually a pretty decent excuse, but that doesn’t actually stop me from feeling bad about this past week, you know?
The thing is, I was sick back in September also, and yet I still managed to keep up with my words. In fact, September was my best month so far. December is shaping up to be the worst.
I still have half the month to work on it, of course. Getting to my December goal is not actually out of reach. Except that, of course, the end of December is Christmas and New Year, and even with Covid making gatherings unlikely, I’m still probably not going to get a ton of extra words in that last week.
So, you know what that means? This week is basically going to make or break my December. I’m going to try my best to get in a lot of extra words. It would be easier if I hadn’t (finally) finished my NaNoWriMo novel, or if I had something really solid to work on next.
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m restarting a novel that I had begun before Milwordy, but I’m still feeling a little shaky with it and I really wish that I had something that I could really bang a lot of words out with, you know? But you have to work with what you’ve got. So, wish me luck!
As for what I’ve learned this past week…I suppose I’ve learned that stumbles will happen. As much as I told myself that I wasn’t going to have any big gaps in my writing time this year, if I had been honest with myself, this was bound to happen. And I think there was a part of me that always knew it because that’s why I pushed myself to get so far ahead in September and October—which was goal-saving by the way. Even having (basically) not written for 5 whole days this week, I’m still ahead for the year. So…yay?
Other than that, I don’t think there’s much I could really learn from not writing, so that’s about it for this week.
I hope that your December is going considerably better than mine. Are you still writing, or are you taking a holiday break?
You may have noticed that this post is a bit…um late. It’s a real shame because I actually had it written a week ago, but then I caught a stomach flu (or possibly food poisoning?) and my whole week got derailed. Spoilers for week 15: It has not been going well.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We’re talking about week 14.
After a rough November, I actually had a pretty good first week in December.
But why though?
Nothing was different. Not really. I mean, I guess one deviation was that I made sure to write in the mornings again, a habit that I had kind of lost in November.
But why?
Listen, one of the big things that I’m learning on this journey is that I know nothing. Seriously. I can think that I have this whole writing productively thing completely figured out one minute only for it to fall completely apart the next. And then I can think that I’m slowly descending into inevitable failure, only to pull myself back up the next week. I legit don’t know what to tell you here, except that this is a journey and sometimes you don’t see the curves or potholes or squirrels until you’re swerving to avoid them.
I think that metaphor was getting away from me a little bit.
Anyway, the good news is that I’m very nearly done with the Regency Romance novel I was working on in November. The final word count is going to be right around 80k, which is, I think, the longest first draft I’ve ever written. Granted, I know that I started my story too early, which is probably the reason for the higher word count, but I’m kind of proud of having written that much in one story. That’s around where I’d like my word counts to actually be, I just chronically under-write, so I don’t usually expect it.
I’m also still working on brainstorming a new project, but I’ve got a long way to go before I can begin drafting that. Instead I’m going to be returning to an old idea that I have a partial outline and about 5k of a first draft for. It’s an urban fantasy with faeries and changelings and a magic system that I hate and have to rework.
So that’ll be fun.
I’m also trying to brainstorm some ideas for Christmas short stories because I found that the Halloween short story I did in October really got me in the mood for the holiday. I think it would be a lot of fun to do the same for Christmas, but so far nothing is reaching out and grabbing me.
So, to reiterate, what I’ve learned this week is that I know nothing and I never will. And that’s okay. Life’s a journey, blah blah blah.
I hope you’ve been having a fun and productive December so far. Are you writing anything new? Let me know about it down in comments!
I am officially ¼ of the way through Milwordy! That’s worth celebrating, right?
Okay…so, if you’ve been following this blog, you may have noticed that last month was, um, a little rougher for me than the previous two months. I feel kind of like a broken record actually, I’ve talked so much about what a struggle November was for me.
And yet, I made it to my November word count goal of 83,334. I’m pretty proud of that. In a way, I’m actually prouder of this month than I was of the previous two. The thing is, those months were a lot of work, but they were also tremendously fun for me. Writing when it’s fun is not exactly a burden. But sometimes you have to write when it’s not fun. Sometimes you have to struggle with it. And I am proud that despite the fact that November was indeed a struggle, I made it through.
But you guys, I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t glad November was over.
I think that a big part of my problem here has been working on a novel that I lost interest in pretty early on. Or at least I’m hoping that’s the problem, because otherwise I might be in for a very long 9 months here.
So, what did I accomplish in the month of November?
Well, I wrote 62,664 words in my NaNo novel, which any other year I would consider a win, but….
Why did I set the goal to actually finishing the novel as my criteria for winning NaNo this year?!
Because, as an under-writer, I assumed that would be no problem at all. Yet here I am, 12K over the word count goal for NaNo and I still have 18 scenes to write. How did this happen?
*sigh*
It’s fine. Seriously, this is actually a great accomplishment and technically I won NaNo, even if I didn’t reach my own personal goal of finishing the whole book in November.
I also wrote a ton of blog posts that I decided I didn’t like and so didn’t post. I don’t know if that’s an accomplishment, but it did give me more writing practice, so, you know…progress?
And I wrote over 6k words during my brainstorming of a new project. Plus, some personal/journal words, which was helpful for me at times when I found it difficult to focus on my other writing. Usually I could focus better on my fiction after I got some of the thoughts that were chaotically swirling around in my head out onto the page.
November was a tough month, but I think, ultimately, I did learn a lot from it and I’m going into December, still with a lead on my words for the year and hope for my next project.
Let’s just hope that Christmas doesn’t derail me entirely.
*uncomfortable laughter*
How was November for you? Did you participate in NaNo? Did you win? Did you struggle like me? Are you still working on your NaNo project? Let me know in the comments!
If you have no idea what Milwordy means, you can check out my first post on this blog for more info: My Milwordy Declaration. In short, it is a writing challenge. I am trying to write one million words in a single year.
You guys, I’m still struggling.
I feel weird saying that because I’m still doing okay on my word count, especially if you look at my year total. It’s just gotten so difficult. I’m spending so much more time on this challenge lately because my writing has slowed down quite a bit. And I’m just not finding as much joy in it as I did at first. It’s been rough.
I’m still trying to figure out whether this is because I’m feeling uninspired with my current NaNo project or if this is the natural settling after the boost in creative energy I got from the start of such an ambitious challenge. I mean, I knew that it was possible, likely even, that I would not be able to maintain the same level of enthusiasm for the whole year, but if I’m being honest, I did expect it to last through November and NaNoWrIMo.
I suppose I won’t really know if it’s this particular novel or Milwordy itself that’s weighing me down until after I can start something new. And, I still probably have a week before I can do that. So, um, stay tuned, I guess?
The main thing I’ve learned this week is that discipline may be the single most important skill I need as a writer. When enthusiasm doesn’t keep my fingers on those keys, I need to find a way to force myself to sit down and do it anyway. While I have managed to hit my word count targets, I know I’ve wasted a lot of time on sitting in front of my computer screen, waiting for my brain to be ready to write. Sometimes you just need to sit down and do it.
How is your road to achieving your writing goals going? Is it as bumpy as mine?
We’re headed into the last full week of NaNoWriMo 2020 and I feel like I’m dragging myself across the finish line here. I’ve had this weird sense of impending failure all month, in spite of the fact that I’ve never once fallen behind where I should be. I, in fact, only missed my NaNo daily target once, but I was already ahead so it didn’t matter.
So why has this NaNo felt so hard?
For one thing, I think that NaNo always feels difficult. Like, I forget how much work it is because this fog of nostalgia and excitement overtakes my brain and all I can think about are the good parts of NaNo—the Twitter words sprints, the forums, the sense of accomplishment when it’s over.
And the progress charts! The beautiful, wonderful progress charts!
Yes, I’m a nerd, what of it?
But I forget how much work it is. I’ve said it before, but I’ve actually found this month much more difficult than the two previous months of Milwordy, mostly because of my self-imposed commitment to a single project that, in all honestly, lost my interest rather quickly. It has felt like I’ve been trudging through rapidly drying concrete. If this were just another regular Milwordy month, I would simply switch projects and be done with it.
But I’ve come this far—too late to turn back now. I have to finish this project, but I would be lying to you if I said that I wasn’t looking forward to December 1st. I’ve got a couple of projects that I’ve just been aching to work on, but haven’t had much time for due to NaNo.
I hope that your NaNo is going better than mine, that you’re still having fun with it and are still passionate about the project you’re working on. If you’re struggling to maintain that level of enthusiasm though, I want you to remind yourself that we’re nearly done. That the sense of accomplishment at the end will totally have been worth the journey through metaphorical wet concrete, and that the book that you’re working on right now is probably not as bad as it may seem to you now. And even if it is, that doesn’t mean that it can never be fixed. But you have to finish it before you can fix it.
Keep going. Don’t give up. We’re almost there!
Bonus Writing Prompt: Your main character wants to give up their goal. How do they find the strength to keep going?
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