Hello, there!
Target word count for today to reach 50K this month: 43342
Your affirmation for today is:
I am an amazing writer and today I prove it
on the page!
This is the last Saturday of NaNoWriMo 2016. The month has
flown by. At this point, some people have already validated and won. Others are
on target and still pushing through, looking forward to 50K by Wednesday. Some
of you may have gotten disgusted and given up. If that is the case – please don’t
use it as a weapon to beat yourself up. Many things happen that we don’t plan.
Your life may have exploded this month. So – OK – if you don’t think you’ll hit
the goal this month, why not change the deadline, not the goal? Please do NOT
fall into the downward spiral of thinking you are not a real writer because you
didn’t make your goal this month. You have more words than you would have had
by now if you HADN’T taken the challenge. I love NaNoWriMo. I have no plans of
missing NaNoWriMo in the future. It’s one of those givens “What does Cedar do
in November? Cedar does NaNoWriMo.” That being said – this challenge is not for
every person. Some people thrive on it. Some people do not. If this is NOT a
challenge that feeds your soul in the final analysis, perhaps you shouldn’t try
again. Please do not do this if it is going to damage you and feed that hateful
voice that says “I told you. You’re not a real writer. You can’t even do this
challenge. You should just give it up and stop fooling yourself.” If it is just
that stuff happened in November of 2016, and you feel you can do this another
year – then, by all means, plan to do that.
This is my penultimate Pep Talk for the year! I hope I have
helped in some small way.
Write bunches and write with joy!
Bright the Day!
Cedar
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