Well, NaNoW­riMo (National Novel Writ­ing Month) is offi­cially over-with all that was going on last month I just couldn’t get to the fifty-thousand word goal. I did how­ever learn a valu­able les­son: I can do it. I was right on tar­get mid month but things got so crazy in the last two weeks that I didn’t have the oppor­tu­nity to sit down and write. I will con­tinue this month to reach for that 50K word goal. I will be start­ing from where I’m at but count­ing from zero (did I make any sense). At this point I don’t have  much  going on until the end of the month with Christ­mas so I think my chances of reach­ing 50K words will be much bet­ter. Through my first attempt at NaNoW­riMo I learned some­thing else-and that is when I write every day and don’t sit and fuss over sen­tences that aren’t per­fect I write much more freely. I’m aim­ing for “fin­ger vomit”-I just want to get this story on the page I’ll worry about the qual­ity of my writ­ing later-perhaps on the fourth or fifth draft.

My final word tally

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