It's been a long time since I've worked on my novel... too long. Tonight I thought to look at the stats on the NaNoWriMo site and the last time I updated my word count was December 20, 2022 - which probably means I was working late into the night on December 19th, and finished writing after midnight.
That's just over four months ago. How did I manage to go four months without working on my novel? And all of that despite April being Camp NaNoWriMo?
The answer is simple, of course: Life intervened.
The holidays were the first hurdle. After that, my husband and I started working on projects around the house... and basically, we've never stopped. We swapped our bedroom with the office and doll room, and then have been working on organizing and setting up the doll room. In addition, I had a doll show to prep for.
All of this has conspired to make it difficult for me to get any writing done. When we're not working on projects late into the evening, it's usually because we're burnt out, and I end up doing things other than writing - usually reading. I've been reading a lot this year!
I need to get back into the habit of writing every night, but first I have one more hurdle: My dad and I are traveling for a few days end of this month. I wasn't planning on schlepping my laptop along on the trip. I don't have any client work, doubt I'll have much time to be on it, and didn't want the responsibility of having it with me. I figured with my phone and my Kindle, that should be enough.
It does mean, however, that any work I do right now to try to get back into the habit of writing every day will be undone on the trip. Plus it'll be a little tough to get into that habit right now, with my birthday next week and a lot of plans for that. So I'm thinking I'll wait until early May when we're back from the trip to start writing again daily.
I still went ahead and created a new writing goal on the NaNoWriMo site now. I want to try to get back on track for publishing the novel this year, even if it's later in the year than planned, so I am going to try to finish the rewritten draft in May.
You can track my progress in the sidebar of this blog, by following my blog posts, and on my NaNoWriMo goals page.
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