First off, thanks
Jennifer for inviting me over. I will not be taking part in this
year’s NANOWRIMO, as I will be spending my November editing. Last
year was actually the first year I won. Writing a book in 30 days is
hard!
My first year doing
NANOWRIMO was in 2009, I never finished because my husband got really
sick and two months later after contracting MRSA and having blood
clots he had to have open heart surgery. So you can understand why
writing was the last thing on my mind. The next year we had a loss in
the family. Again you can see why writing was not a priority. And
then in 2011 I started a new job that November. One I had never done
before, and by the time I got home I was way too tired to think about
writing. Last year I had some obstacles to overcome but most where
towards the end of the month, and by that time I had made it over the
halfway point which made it easier. I finished the rough draft
actually a few days early then the 30 day mark.
I do want to say that
you need to do NANOWRIMO at least once, and actually complete it.
Writing is hard, so don’t let anyone convince you that it is easy.
I learned that not to worry about correcting something you don’t
like, just continue to write. You can always fix it on your rewrite.
I actually had to train myself to do that or I would go back and fix
it, get frustrated with the story and just put it on the side. By
charging on it helps. I find it easy to know how my story is going to
end. If I don’t have an ending I am not sure where the story is
going. That might work for short stories, but not for actually books.
I will actually say this as well, don’t give up. Even if you don’t
complete it in 30 days don’t stop keep going until you’re done.
The feeling you get from finishing your story is the best feeling in
the world, okay one of the best feeling in the world. ;)
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