A NANOWRIMO Up Date

So, it is not December and I felt that I should give an update on my NANOWRIMO attempt. The short version is I did not win. I really only got 2 days of writing done. Let me elaborate.

At the time I started this, I was down both of my computers. My Chromebook and my laptop running Linux both quit. They were dead. But I was going to push on. I was going to write on my Samsung tablet. But, that was not the best option. There were also some other things going on in my life and I just had trouble actually writing. In the end, I just didn’t really do much at all.

Now, what am I going to do moving forward? I am still going to work on the book. In fact, I have knocked out about 11000 words so far. I like this story and I want to finish it, it will just be later than I had hoped.

I know that the goal of NANOWRIMO has always been to motivate people to write. It is the nudge that is often needed to get people to start writing. And it did that for me. So, in that regard, I would say that I succeeded. I just didn’t make the 30 day goal.

This is my take away and my encouragement is this: don’t give up. While I know that it is great if you can “win” the event, like I said, the goal is just to get you to write. So, just write. And, if you still want to do 50000 in 30 days, do it. It doesn’t have to be in November. You can do it at any time. Just write.

Well, I just wanted to give a small update so here it is. Have a great one everybody!