Four years ago, yesterday, I had the joint book launch for Still Dreaming and Wake. That was also the first year I won NaNoWriMo (and won it properly, by working on a novel and not just lots of smaller writing projects).
This November? Well… let’s just say it’s been very different, and not just with the many, many small projects, either.
Main point: I didn’t win. I got sick for three weeks and went on holiday (not in that order), but I also managed twenty-two thousand words and I’m really happy with that.
November =
- 1 Holiday
- 7 boxes of tissues
- 6 blog posts (1,100 words)
- 20 micropoems (800 words)
- 4 bottles of cough medicine
- 3 and half fanfics (17,000 words!)
- numerous squares of chocolate
- despair about a lack of client work, followed by…
- a lot of client work
- 3,000 words towards my novel
a partridge in a pear tree
While I’m here, I should also probably get my reading update out of the way – not that there’s much to report!
Books Finished: Diary of a Wimpy Vampire by Tim Collins, A Choice of Emily Dickinson’s Verse
Books Started: White Night by Jim Butcher, No Life But This by Anna Sheehan, one fanfic novel
Books Bought: The Female Line: Northern Irish Women Writers
(Okay, so that was a little more than I actually remembered. Go me!)
How was your November?
