Well the writing month of November has begun. The target: 50,000
words in 30 days. In anticipation of the pain – physical and emotional – that I
will be going through over the next month I have re-named it ‘November Pain’
after a song that I love but thanks to my father’s request to play it as his
funeral now has a darker connotation. Thanks dad!
So day one kicked off and I wrote 2,000 words, which wasn’t
a bad start when you consider that I was at work all day and then came home to
the usual boredom of chores, dinner and juggling life as a student with life as
an author and book reviewer. Not too shabby. 48,000 to go!
This is my first attempt at NaNoWriMo and I have a
beginner’s hunger to ‘win’. I’m taking this as a personal challenge and I know
failure is not an option if I want to keep my sanity (and avoid the wrath of
Sam Sykes who publicly warned me via twitter that I couldn’t let our houses
down – Sam, I’m on it!). So there it is. Writing is on. Life is on pause. Good
luck everyone. Good luck self!
Elloise Hopkins.
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