A very happy camper

Last November, I made the monumental (for me) decision to sign up for NaNoWriMo after years of simply watching from the sidelines. For the first time, my writing was driven with a goal in mind: to write a staggering (for me, then) 50,000 words in just 30 days.

By the time I submitted my novel for its final validation (the process by which the NaNo word counting bots verify that you have indeed written 50,000 words or more), that project had upwards of 62,000 words. I had written more than I had ever written on a single project in my life, and I was thrilled.

That project had been planned in my head for a long time – I just hadn’t found the motivation to put my fingers to the keyboard and actually write anything.

This summer, I signed up for the very first “beta” session of Camp NaNoWriMo. And today, I am again very pleased to announce my second NaNo win, with over 55,000 words in my document. This book was completely unplanned, too: I simply sat down at the keyboard and waited for a character to show up. And she did. Not only that, she brought a lot of friends and family with her.

Thank you, Muses. My next step is to write something that I might actually be able to publish…

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