NaNoWri/EdMo
30-Mar-04
From Lauren’s email today: Turn your back on March Madness for the next two days. Let your significant other feed the kids or the dog. It will all still be there next month.
This sentence made me pause, and think for a moment. The dog might not be there next month.
So I gave myself permission to fail at NaNoEdMo. This month I put in almost 40 hours of solid editing on my novel. But I don’t write in a vacuum, and I have a dog in part because I used to freelance and got lonely at home all day. My attention is on my dog when he’s sick, because I know his is on me all the rest of the time. So, I failed at NaNoEdMo, failed to devote myself completely to the project, failed to really focus.
And I’m not even a little sorry.