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Twice in my life I’ve written 50,000 words in one month, as part of National Novel Writing Month. How did I do that?  I simply started writing. 

Pretty well every single day of those two consecutive Novembers, I put my butt in my chair, put on some inspiring music, and began typing. I knew that I had to write at least 1600 words every day in order to meet my goal. I put off doing other evening activities during that time because I seriously had to write! 

Every day was a new day to start writing. It didn’t matter that my writing wasn’t the best.  I just wanted to accomplish my goal. And it worked. By the end of the month, I had a sense of satisfaction knowing that my book was completed.  And I was amazed at the ideas that flowed once I got into the writing groove. At times I didn't know in which direction my story would go or what would happen to a character. The writing wasn’t necessarily great, I know that. BUT I was amazed that it was coherent and made sense, and I was really enjoying myself. The first book was called Goodbye to Yesterday and the second was titled One Thousand Words  (as in ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, but you’d have to read the story… ). Riveting titles, eh? ;)

Nothing really gets done if we don’t decide to just start, putting our feelings aside. I guess that’s called discipline. 

Does this reminiscing inspire me to start a new NaNoWriMo Challenge come November? I'm starting to think about it.