Yeah, I don’t think I’m going to swing it. I wrote the 50K words last year for National Novel Writing Month with no problem and figured I could cruise to yet another victory. Take that as a lesson kids: Just because you do something once doesn’t mean you can mail it in the next time.

Writing 50K words is tough. Especially when it’s all complete and utter crap. There were so many times this month where I was writing and just couldn’t bear to continue because it was so bad. I guess that’s what the editing process is for, but when you’re trying to crank out that much material, you don’t have any time to stop and change things for the better.

The sting of failure is real though and the only way to remove it is to finish what I’ve started. I had done 40K words on basically the same story before but stopped because it sucked. So I started it again, changed some stuff around and used the other draft I wrote as a way to fill in some of the gaps. I actually stopped at one point and started something entirely different that I liked a lot. It’s short, so I’m sure that will see the light of day before the novel I was working on. So I will finish them both to relieve this horrid feeling of failure hanging over me. That is, as soon I finish the story I actually completed Nanowrimo with last year.

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