Hey gals. >.< I’m back.
This month is NaNoWriMo which loosely translates to National Novel Writing Month. I did not know this was a thing until a couple weeks ago, and so far I’m not still not sure if I wanted to.
It has definitely been a challenge to say the least. To me, the most rigorous part is finding the willpower, the passion, the drive, if you will, to want to write towards your word count. When one day you may not meet it, it just makes you feel the inferior gloom that there are pros doing it times 100% that you’re giving. It is humiliating!
I do have to keep in mind one word I used however. Pro. There is a reason they have the title of pro and I do not. It still hurts tho… 🙁
Well, if I’m being honest and 100% with you, and I take pride in saying I almost always am here,
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I’m behind. There I said it. Teach, if you’re reading this and I know you’ll have to, I just radded myself out. Like there was a solid week maybe that I did not even get CLOSE to my word counts so now I’m behind a good….thousand. >o<
I know, I know. Put me in the medieval locks and have the village laugh and point at me. At least give me my phone while I’m in shambles though because I found a stupidly obvious solution to my problem.
My phone! Every single time I would try and write it would be my phone that distracted me away from making my writer’s wet dream of finishing my word count come true. So what did I do that made me find hope? Well there I was on a long car ride, and the buzzing conversations had died out by this point. So, I started writing on my phone instead of my laptop.
That seems blatantly obvious to do, but I never thought of it. Not only can I type faster on my phone, so I can crunch more words in before my attention span runs out, but also I am no longer having my phone be the distraction because I’m already on it. Genius!
I went and type type typed and met my word count of the day in only like 15-20 minutes? Then, I realized. If I wrote just another, how much farther could I get? Is all hope not lost and buried so deep down into the Mariana Trench?
Well, let me put on my scuba gear and find out cause this month still ain’t over kiddos! I feel empowered and ready to take on this challenge and actually enjoy NaNoWriMo. No longer, NaNoHellNo.
Keep dreaming, be free, be happy. ♥
Honestly, I use my phone just as much – or more -when working on projects too!
Felt this haha