Nanowrimo, Day Thirteen – Recognition
Posted on Monday, November 14th, 2011Today I wrote 2476 words. I will say that the vast majority of those words were written very early this morning between midnight and 2 AM and most of the rest of it was spent editing. However this does bring my total to 23,050 words. This only puts me about 300 words behind my goal for tomorrow. However any extra words every tomorrow will be much appreciated since I won’t get tons done on Tuesday since its the day we will be having our midway bash. I’m having a lot of fun this nanowrimo.
I won’t deny that I haven’t had my down days but I will say that I’ve been enjoying it a lot. One of my goals for this nanowrimo was to learn how to do this as a full-time job. That means spending time on it every night, still keeping up my relationship with my husband and being able to keep up my work at my day job. The last year I’ve been feeling like I’ve been working a second full-time job but this shows me that I can indeed do it.
One of the things that help me make today a really great day was that today I got a little bit of recognition. The Daily Mongerer is an online writing newspaper. Every day they post a link to people’s blogs and tweets of interest to writers. Yesterday, they featured my “Nanowrimo, Day Twelve” blog post.
It was a very small thing but it really felt like it was huge. It also really helped that a friend of mine said, “when they soon I’m going to be able to say I knew her back when…” when I told her I still have quite a ways to go before I got to that point she commented, “it’s never met anyone with the determination and drives to learn all about the process like you do. It will be sooner than you think.”
I know it’s just because I am a proud Story Wonk that loves learning about craft, but that was one of the sweetest things that anybody’s ever said to me. It reminded me that the best part of the recognition isn’t people that I don’t know saying that I’ve gotten somewhere, but the people I do know saying that I deserve to be there.
Tags: Blog, Falling through the Threshold, motivation, Nanowrimo, Novels, Recognition, Story Wonk, storywonk, The Daily Monger, Writing
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