Woke up this morning to a stiff neck, a very painful spread out across the shoulders and up to the base of the skull stiff neck. Sort of makes me glad that I gave up on NaNoWriMo this year back just after I got back from Las Vegas. I know I have wrote more than 50,000 words this month, shoot, I've probably surpassed 100,000, but very little of that was on the story that I was going to be writing for NaNoWriMo and I really have not had the desire to be working on that project this year anyway, so I have called it off for this year and will keep working on the novel I already have in the works rather than start a different one just for the sake of writing something in November.
For me, NaNoWriMo is all about getting the muses talking when you don't have anything in the works and want to get the muses started on a project. It's all about getting started on that novel that you have always wanted to write. It's not about neglecting the for pay writing and the writing that you have been working on for years just for the vanity of saying "I did NaNoWriMo!" If you are working on NaNoWriMo *just* to "win" then you have already lost because you will never produce something that is worthy of the time you dedicated to it. So, for me, this year, it's not a year to be working on a NaNoWriMo project, I bow out gracefully (actually I decided to bow out by the first week, which is why there is no more done than there has been, and I will focus on the writing that pays the bills and the writing that I have a genuine love and desire for seeing completed.
Good luck to all who are working on NaNoWriMo, though, I wish you the best of success and hope that you see your novel reach publication.
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