It All Comes down to You

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I did not make it through those silvery doors of achievement. I blew a lot of things off to try to win the battle against my procrastination. I did not reach the goal, but I did learn a few things and come farther than I had with my project in the past.

I'm talking about the NaNoWriMo contest to write 50,000 words in the month of November and come through that experience with a rough-cut of a novel. I did not attain that, but I did find something closer to my own voice. I truly believe that to be the real goal of this exercise.

I did not kill my own internal editor, though. And that made getting through the process a lot like hauling a wheel-barrow full of rocks up an interminable hill. One thing is for sure, writing 10k words in one evening is a lot harder than one would think. It's exhausting even if you are just flushing out ideas that you have already written and not creating them from the ethers.

So I will continue to write with no accolades on the horizon, save my own. And I'll have a lot more time to write here in case anyone is reading. I wish good luck to the writers that did (and did not) finish in hammering out a finished novel. We all need it.