This November I did National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! It was very time consuming, and it took me a while to actually realize that I was spending at least an hour writing every day. Doing NaNoWriMo was stressful at times, but it also was very satisfying to create so much writing and make so much progress in my story in just one month. I started out at the beginning of the month thinking that the 50,000 word count goal (that NaNoWriMo uses as the generic word-count length for a novel) was probably too ambitious, and that I would make some progress but definitely not achieve the whole goal. But then as the month progressed, I continued staying on track, and by the end of November I had written 50,054 words!
I worked on drafting the middle of the Water Whisperer story that I started last year. It was very good for me to start drafting in the middle of the story rather than rewriting the beginning, because I was able to write about a lot of the important events in the story that I had planned for last year, but hadn't actually gotten around to writing. The story isn't finished, and I still need to write the ending, but I made a lot of progress and it was really fun to do NaNoWriMo and achieve my goal!
I worked on drafting the middle of the Water Whisperer story that I started last year. It was very good for me to start drafting in the middle of the story rather than rewriting the beginning, because I was able to write about a lot of the important events in the story that I had planned for last year, but hadn't actually gotten around to writing. The story isn't finished, and I still need to write the ending, but I made a lot of progress and it was really fun to do NaNoWriMo and achieve my goal!