I’m sad. To be honest, I’m not sad. I’m pissed off and jealous. I want to be a willy nilly writer again. I really want to do Nano this year.
I have two great ideas on bat too. Just waiting for 30 days of insane pressure to hone them into a rough diamond.
But the grown up writer in me. The mature one that talks about my career and all that jazz, says, you need to finish editing and publish your sophomore novel or you don’t have a career.
But I wanna play…..
Because that’s what Nano is, play. It’s fun, and exciting, and obsessively insane.
Sigh. I need to keep my eye on the line now, because I let that whole drama over the summer, cough cough pool board cough cough, screw up my time line.
Thank you for entertaining my two year old tantrum. Stomps feet, spins round in a circle, jumps up and down once or twice.
The grown up is back in charge. But if you have a moment…tell me, how is Nano treating you this year?
T.A. Henry 
Like you I’m finishing what I started … so leaving Nano well alone this year … mind you I can’t stop entering short (ish) writing challenges, competitions and the like!
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Short writing challenges were actually one of my goals this year, but I didn’t stick with it. Bad me, loss of points.
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From what I’ve read you’ve been a bit busy this year! … so bonus points methinks. As for me I got into ‘short challenges’ late in the year … probably due to the slow realisation that the long stuff wasn’t getting anywhere fast!
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I feel that pain.
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I’m trying to be a grown-up and focus my nano into something terribly productive, and that’s feeling a bit tough. I wish I could just write like the wind. Although hopefully a few more days of studying and outlining and I should be able to do that…I hope!
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Stick with it, you where you’re going.
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So far , so good. Not making targets but having lots of fun and writing stuff that I am pleased with.
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That’s more than half the battle.
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