NaNo Roundup

Somehow, we have all made it to the end of NaNo. Congratulations!

My word count is . . . pathetic enough that I’d rather not share. And after the first week or two, I gave up on making my daily goal of two hours of writing time.

I had a lot of bad habits to unlearn. Still do.

Ideally, I’d love to be like Chuck Wendig and write 50,000 words every month. But that is nothing I will manage working a full-time day job while acknowledging family’s existence and having a social life.

This year’s NaNo gave me the chance to relearn how to eke out a few extra minutes of writing throughout my day. How those minutes quickly add up to something significant. I’ve even had a few days that approached my June levels of output, when I was finishing a chapter every other day.

I won NaNo.

Not by word count, and not by my arbitrary measure of hours per day. My whole purpose was to get back into a rhythm I’ve been missing for months. It may have taken me all of November, but I did it.

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