NaNoWriMo Is Over

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This is my second year doing NaNoWriMo, and it was definitely harder than the first. I'll say it once, I'll say it again, I'll say it for the people in the back, I'll repeat it until I die. Writing is hard. It's taking something from nothing and putting it down on paper. This year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world pledged to write 50,000 words in a month.

November started with my aunt and her boyfriend arriving, which meant that we were going to have more people in the house for a while.

I love my aunt, and her boyfriend is pretty cool, but I have certain criteria that must be met for me to start writing. One of those is a quiet house, or an appropriate level of background noise. Aunts and little brothers running around screaming. That's one of the reasons why I like writing at my local Starbucks.

Another thing that hindered my writing was the fact that everybody in the house (Mom, Dad, Little Bro, Aunt, and Aunt's Boyfriend) got sick. Including me.

Anyway, one of the most important things about NaNoWriMo isn't that we write 50,000 words in a month. The most important thing is that hundreds of thousands of people decided to sit down and take something from nothing.

Anybody that did NaNoWriMo, I'm proud of you. And for the writers in my readership, please join me for Camp NaNoWriMo in March/April!

Cheers, DFTBA, and Good Night.
Anna Grace

An Open Letter to a Prospective Partner

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Hi y'all! I'm breaking my hiatus to give you a little musing on something that happened while I was on my trip.