Holidays and a Free Book

Wow, the holidays just took over my life this season. Work was slammed due to Star Wars coming out, on top of both jobs and my life just kinda spiraled. For once, I truly even forgot that I had a blog. So here, enjoy a treat for the holidays. A free book. Today only!

Follow Leora in her personal struggled to make it, in a place that really doesn't want her there.

Free Book

It's over

     Alright, as most of you know, November is over and done with and as the month closed so did another NaNoWriMo contest. For those who haven't been following me, or aren't familiar. It's a personal challenge where people around the world try to write 50,000 words of a new novel in one month. It breaks down to around 1,700 words a day. Sounds easy, but it's for sure not.

     I started out strong and lasted longer than I normally do before I hit my lull, so that was nice. There was even one point where I was an entire day a head. I did however, still hit that time where I missed one day and spiraled out of control.

     At the end of the month I did end up with a 38,000+ word count. So that on top of 40+ hours a week, is something I am very proud of. I am however, far from my novel being finished. I might not have made my own personal goals, or even NaNoWriMo's, but it's not going to stop me.

     I do plan to finish my rough draft. It might not be in November, but I am going to keep working on it until it's done.

Focus

As always for me these last few days will be a flurry of writing to get my words in last minute. This year will be no different. I'm going to do my best and see what I can get done. With that said, I'm about to focus on my writing. I suggest you do the same, even if it's just free writing to take up space. Do it. Get your words in. We can totally still make it. Every word counts! I'll see you all on the other side.

Things Pile Up

Laundry, mail, my responsibilities. It's all been chucked up in a corner and forgotten about for the month. I have 2 book reviews that I need to share with you all, and a bunch of other things that I need to get organized, buuuut that's not going to happen. What is going to happen is I am going to beat my old NaNoWriMo word count. I'm still going to try for the full 50,000 but I will take what I can get.

Happy writing!

The downfall of my own positivity

I have not admitted defeat left. I do have 4 days and could easily still beat NaNoWriMo, but I have accepted the reality of it. Over the Thanksgiving break I returned home only to realize that my partner who is in the hospital, took all the laptop chargers.... and mine died on day one. So in short my entire break was pretty much a waste for writing. I am heartbroken over it because now I need over 4,000 words a day to even make my goal. One top of pulling a double today, it's going to be hard that's for sure. I'm not giving up, far from, but I can see the end, and right now, it's not very pretty.

Happy Thanksgiving!

To all of you, alone or stuck with that one crazy aunt, or you even could be that aunt. Happy Thanksgiving. Stay safe and happy.

As far as my NaNoWriMo work, I'm going to use my holiday alone time to catch up on my word count. I'll catch you all tomorrow.

I fell off the wagon

yup, not only did I fall, I got ran over too. I have been getting some work done in my free time at work, however I am still VERY far behind. I have come to realize that I might not make my final goal. That's not going to stop me from trying though. Haha! I'm just over 29,000 words. By the end of today I am supposed to be over 38,000. So right now I am almost 10,000 words behind and I only have about a week left to do it. Good news is, I have tomorrow off and no family so I will have plenty of time to write. Let's see what I can get done today as well. My old record for one day was 15,000. I'm willing to bet, with some planning, I can easily do better.