Days 4 & 5: Writing Appetite

While I haven't exactly maintained momentum to blog every day (but close--give me some credit!), I have kept my turtle pace going on my projects. Slow and steady. Slow and steady. Now I do know that slow and steady does not "win" NaNoWriMo, but it does create appetite. It is kind of the opposite of …

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Writing as Remedy

Day 2 of NaNoWriMo, and I'm already writing about loss. At first it surprised me, but of course it should not have. This is the week we remember the life of our middle son who is celebrating his seventh heavenly birthday. While my typing did not take me into the journey of infant loss, I …

And So It Begins Again

There are projects collecting dust on my desk. With each week of the semester that begins, I'm met with more to do and the projects I care about get pushed further and further back on the desktop. Then comes November, and NaNoWriMo calls. I was not (really) thinking about participating until my husband asked a …