#Nano Updates

Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.

Shonda Rhimes

I want to say that it’s been a rough couple of weeks and that’s why I haven’t been providing regular updates on what I’ve been doing, but it doesn’t quite feel true. I’ve been feeling really tired lately. And of course, rattled.

It HAS been a really stressful couple of weeks. The US Presidential Election was last week, which I won’t go much into. NaNo started last week. I’m more than a month into my new job, which is nice. I guess I’m also really nervous about what entails after this temporary job. I want to work in Admin, but I also want to upgrade my skillset and I also want to be able to eat well and earn enough to support my family and I really should write this all down somewhere that’s perhaps not on the interwebs.

Maybe pursuing a career as an Executive Assistant wasn’t the best idea. But I can’t make that decision after taking one course. I only learned that I can’t absorb any information properly after 5 weeks of learning. It’s a lot. Especially on top of work, even if it only is part time. And then that reminds me that I might have to do EI updates, and maybe do more posts for Passion Planner, and then do more updates here, and even that’s overwhelming because I have no idea how to be an influencer.

And everything is so open and it’s overwhelming. And I also should do more therapy, but even that’s overwhelming because I can’t exactly pay for regular sessions. I really should write this all somewhere.

Maybe in my Passion Planner actual. That tends to help.

And NaNoWriMo’s going okay. I’m still doing things in spurts. Everything is going in sentences, which is better than I’ve ever hoped for. I might also try for doing weekly prompts via Start with This. Start with This is a podcast by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink of Night Vale fame. It’s cool. It has prompts that I can do once a week, or whatever. I can start whenever I’d like.

Of course, the hardest part is just Starting.

We’ll see.

And I’ll just keep trying to be creative.

Happy NaNoWriMo friends!

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

Terry Pratchett

Hello Everybody!!

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Hello All! Happy November (And Happy Christmas to all ya’ll who patiently wait until Halloween is over to pull out the Christmas music)!

And yes, I did say November. Which means it’s NaNoWriMo and it’s time to write, write write!

(Yes, this blog will go towards my NaNo count. The Website doesn’t say that the words written necessarily have to be a Novel.)

My novel this year will be about Hockey (and that’s all I’m gonna give you!) I was inspired to write hockey related things by a comic by Ngozi Ukazu so fingers crossed that mine works out okay.

I’m trying a different writing style than what I’m used to this year. I’ve found that I’ve always had trouble using the standard Third Person/First Person style that’s most common amongst novels. This year I’m gonna try a story told through Social Media so we’ll see how well it goes.

Of course, this will be a First Draft so it won’t go as perfectly as I want it to. But that’s okay. First Drafts are rarely perfect and once I’ve always got until next year to flesh out where I want to go with the story and properly plan it out.

Fingers crossed I actually reach 50, 000 words this year!

What are your plans for NaNoWriMo this year? (Also, add me on nanowrimo.org at waywardwrite.s!

Until next time!