I am failing NaNoWriMo
And why that is OK
I had made my plans. Found my resolve. My abandoned fantasy novel well and truly on my mind at the start of this month. I was ready to go NaNoWriMo.
And then I didn’t.
Still a week to November 2019 and I haven’t written a word of my novel. There’s a league of excuses I could come up with. But if I am truly honest with myself — and with you, dear reader — I just don’t want to. I think that if I was really committed to the story, to my unlikely heroine and the fantasy folk on her path, I would just sit down and write. I would find the time — or rather, create the time.
Yet it’s not as if I haven’t written at all this month. On average, I wrote two articles a day and published 12 in my new Medium publications Hearts in the Write Place, The Changing Blog and The Healing House.
I’ve only just started my Medium publications. I feel very committed to them and want to see them through. That means I have to write a lot. Daily. I have to focus my attention on the scope of my Medium publications. My fantasy novel simply does not fit in. Of course I could write article after article about my struggle with this novel, but I dare say I will bore my audience — and Medium as well.
