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Writing

Ok so I have neglected this site for a while, that's what happens when you decide you want your child to experience organized sports, and have him begin to play football. So that was my summer and ultimately garnered my hiatus from blogging on a regular bases(also being a HUGE procrastinator doesn't help either). So football season is finally over..GO BRONCOS and they had a great season.  A winning season. But on to the real drama of my life National Novel Writing Month.

I have known about this website http://www.nanowrimo.org since it first began in 2000. I have made a few attempts to even try to try and write 50k words in no less than 30 days. But alas to my disgrace I became one of their many writing victims andgracefully bowed out before even starting. So this year I planned ahead. I had a brilliant idea for a plot and a main character and I started outlining and writing out scenes. Since that is within the parameter of the rules for the nanowrimo. So I was ready and gunning to go. I told the people that I speak to on a regular basis and told the I would be MIA for the month of November. I informed my husband that the he would need to help wrangling the boys and the dreaded laundry(I HATE WASHING CLOTHES..ok I admitted it. I feel better now) So I was on my way.

So when Novemeber 1 at midnight came I was on the computer typing away. I was so excited and enthralled by the fact that I was going to complete this goal of writing this great story. I was in heaven. I am pretty much behind by like 12k words but hey I'm doing it and I can only be proud off myself that I stuck with this story and made it this far.

I have had some many manuscripts that I have started and havd left incomplete and I am overly excited that I am going to actually strive to do more than 50k. I want to do at least 150k and I am on the road to do that.

I guess my secret in keeping up with the word count is wiritng by hand and then typing, because I seem to add more when I am not just looking at a blank computer screen. It is actually fun, but I feel a little stressed about it all. I am way to hard on myself about where I am as a writer and I think this is helping a long with my many goals that I need to achieve to rech my own personal success. 

So good luck to all my fellow nanowrimoers out there in cyberspace....keep writing!!