Every year, around the beginning of October, everything seems to be going splendidly. I’m usually getting caught up on everything that might distract me, happy to already be done with my outline, and ready to roll on November 1st. Then it starts – and believe me, this year is no exception.
Despite my best laid plans, it seems likely I’ll be editing at least two other books during at parts of November. At work, I face a surprise inspection, a brand new high-tech setup I have to create for an expo in – you guessed it – November – a pile of computers to be configured, and an audit that is six months earlier than expected. Most of this will be done before November, to be clear, and my job doesn’t interfere with Nano in any case – unless it leaks over into evenings and weekends.
The point of all this is simply that, as usual, it won’t be as easy as it seemed like it was going to be. Life will fight me all the way as I write, and I have to be ready to run when there’s a clear road and deal with the pitfalls when they block my path. I also have to remember my own rule – that as much fun as Nanowrimo is, and as much as I want to maintain my unblemished completion record, it’s not important in any real way. Not in the way the job is important. Not in the way the book itself is important, or my life, or my family. I will write, and I will work my butt off, but I will keep it all in perspective.
Things have a way of working themselves out, and I’m going to trust in that. Meanwhile, one thing is absolutely certain. I will not be bored between now and November 1st… Actually, a second thing is certain. By the time Nanowrimo has started, I will have been alive for half a century. Hmm…
Onward!
-DNW
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