Doing great but not feeling good about it. We’re nearing the end of November, and with it, the end of NaNoWriMo. And I can’t wait for it to be over. It’s not because I’m behind on my word count because I’m ahead of the curve still. I know part of…

Incomplete days. NaNoWriMo is supposed to be an unbroken chain of words. Or at least, that’s how I always saw it. It was a month of discipline to sit your butt in a chair and write everyday. To do less was a failure. Obviously, my mindset has changed over the…

What I’ve learned from doing this challenge for years. We are at the end of the first week of NaNoWriMo. I’m cruising along with my story. The first week is usually the best because all of the excitement is there. By weeks two or three, I start dragging butt and…

Allowing yourself a break. Today has been a day. My creative energy is drained and I’m trying to get the last few things done before NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow. My problem is that all I want to do is lay around and do nothing. I feel like there’s nothing left to…

Getting rid of distractions NaNoWriMo starts next week. One of the big things for me has been prepping my novel so I can hit the ground running as well as trying to finish up all of the things for my debut novel. A big thing for my prep is also…

Testing out a new change to my morning routine. I’ve decided to change up how I do part of my morning routine. I’ve been thinking for awhile now that I needed to change things up. My routine is feeling a bit stale. Mostly in my journaling. I have been sticking…

Changing how I get ready for NaNoWriMo I’ve been doing NaNoWriMo for a long time. I’m fairly certain that my first couple of years were done without actually reporting on the website. I embraced the whole “write a book in the month” aesthetic of the event. That meant that most…

Setting up my quarterly goals. Q3 was a bit of a mess. There’s no other way to describe it. I switched projects mid-quarter because I realized that I was writing the books in the wrong order. That being said, I still managed to complete a lot of goals. So how…

Even with half of my plans going sideways this quarter, I still want to finish with my head held high. “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry” -Robert Burns To say that this quarter went sideways is an understatement. Writer’s block and realizing that I’m writing my…