![]() I published an interview with Michael Cunningham in the Illinois Library Association Reporter. NaNoWriMo, you have officially kicked my lily-white, Irish/Dutch/English posterior. Or I was, but knowing I didn't have time to go back and revise made me reluctant to go on. I just wasn't feeling it this year, I guess. Besides, I changed my mind about the entire direction of the piece and wasn't sure how to go on, leaving the first 50ish pages hanging while twisting the plot, mid-novel, into something totally different. Chin up, woman! There's nothing saying I can't take what I started, finish it and rework it into something, now is there. You gave it a shot." I need to extend to myself that same empathy. I just couldn't get there." I'd say, "No worries. If anyone else said to me, "Hey, I tried, but you know how much else I have going on. I'm concerned by how embarrassed I've been to come online and admit defeat. ![]() What bothers me most isn't that I didn't cram 50,000 words into 30 days. ![]() In order for me to have finished NaNoWriMo I would have had to write something along the lines of 30,000 words by the end of the day. I was trampled by the horses, scraped off the street and tossed onto the sidewalk. The wagon hit a bump in the road and I fell off. ![]()
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