There are days I feel despondent about the way I write or the words I use, as I read another bloggers beautiful words and think to myself, I wish I could write like that. It is with some trepidation I keep on blogging, that I kept on with the November NaNoWriMo project, and that I share my world publicly at all. So, without your support and occasional raising of my flag like many of you did yesterday, I do wonder if the drought would visit, drying up my word-pool for good. You wonderful flag raisers gave me the faith I needed to believe I know I can make it. Thank you.
The week 5 pep talk from Lindsay: I know I can! (from the book, The Little Engine that Could) said this “… This November, so many years later, I have frequently felt like the little engine that can’t. I’ve had moments where I was certain that I didn’t have one more word in me. Not an “if”, or a “the”, or even a “she.” Maybe a “humph.” Or a “grr.” Of course, that was my inner beastie getting the better of me. Because in truth, we’re all little engines that can… and will! As we chug up this last crest to the 50K pinnacle, we shouldn’t be chanting “I think I can.” We should be bellowing “I know I can! …”
His words resonated with me, and kept me going too. I’ve just looked up the statistics from my NaNoWriMo challenge, and thought you might be also interested?
Your Average Per Day 1,672 Words Written Today Event Finished Target Word Count 50,000 Target Average Words Per Day 1,667 Total Words Written 50,166 Winner! Days Remaining Event Finished
The realisation I have had since finishing this challenge, is it will probably take at least another 50,000 words to complete the book, to make it real and worthwhile! Scary stuff!!
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Oh gosh, Kate, don’t we all say that sometimes? I know I do. All the time! I think it is really hard to be objective about our own words. Still, we do what we can do. Just knowing we are not in it alone does help a ton. So next step… keep on stepping! 🙂 Congrats again!
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