staying strong

I have many writing friends who are striving to finish NaNoWriMo right now. It’s a hard task–to write 50,000 words in a month. They only have a couple days left to finish their word counts. To reach their goals.

Although I’m not doing NaNoWriMo, I have a writing deadline of my own hanging over me. I need to finish my novel in order to take it to a workshop in a month. There’s a deadline. And a goal.

How do you focus when your mind is already so tired? When your fingers have been typing for so long and all you want is a little rest? Drafting a novel is exhaustion work. Not only physically exhausting with all the late nights and long hours of typing. But emotionally exhaustion as you pour so much of yourself into your work.

For my friends who are struggling to meet the deadline:

Stay strong. The month’s almost over…the goal is so close.

Just Keep writing. Even if you’re 30,000 words behind and there’s no way of watching up. You won’t regret a word you type. The more you write, the better you will get. Don’t stop.

 

 

{On an unrelated note, I’m sorry for my unexcused absence the last week. Thanksgiving and an 102 degree fever caught me off guard and wrecked havoc with my writing time. But I’m back in the saddle and back at the keyboard.}