Lessons from the #daily250yeg challenge

The month of May saw the Edmonton NaNoWriMo group and I participating in a fun challenge, could we pen 250 words/day on our manuscripts? It was great practice for the upcoming NaNoWriMo challenge in November, and given everything else going on in the world, a welcome external reason to ignore reality and delve into a world of my imagination.

Coming out of the challenge, here are my takeaways.

For me, writing can feel like running a marathon in blazing hot weather, on a path full of trip wire an...