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I realize that I should have written this post eight days ago, but I hadn't decided at that point if I wanted to make this public. But, I guess now I'm going to. So pay attention, because I have a super important announcement that affects the lives of literally no one else.
I'm attempting NaNoWriMo again! Trust me; it's as exciting as it sounds. For those of you who followed my progress last year, I made it a whole five days before I abandoned the novel I was attempting. Well, so far I've held out for eight days this year, so I'd say I'm doing pretty well. My original plan for this year's attempt was to step completely out of my comfort zone. I learned that Hallmark's publishing company is open for novel submissions. The only downside? You have to write a happy ending. I've never written a happy ending. It might make me physically ill to write a happy ending. But I was determined to try! After an hour of hard work at my computer on November 1, I ended up with an impressive 200 words. For those of you who don't know, 200 words (double spaced, of course; I'm not an animal) isn't even a whole page. Writing happy characters who never face real hardships was proving to be more difficult than I anticipated. So I deleted that Word document and started over. On the second attempt, I decided to write a story I've been mentally outlining for over a year. It's dark and gritty and involves an insane number of jumps between various points of view. After about 20 minutes of typing on that story, I had over 500 words and I'd stabbed someone in the throat on page two. I found my stride, and I've been steadily working on that one ever since. I'll post an update at the end of the month to see if I actually manage to stick with it this year (don't hold your breath). And you can definitely expect a few more throat slashes before the final page. Sorry, Hallmark. Maybe next year.
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