Day 11: You're Doing Alright

You don’t need to finish. No I’m not telling you to quit, I’m talking about your story. You don’t have to write the whole thing this month; yes NaNoWriMo challenges you to write a novel in 30 days. That doesn’t mean that any actually expects you to do it. What people do expect is for you to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days. The operative word here being ‘of.’ Your story can be longer than that, most books are.

You don’t need to worry if it doesn’t look like you’ll be finished with your book this month, you have next month, and then next year to finish it. By the end of this month you should have a good sized chunk of it written up, a chunk you can add to, carve out, and polish up into a full sized novel of your very own.

But right now you’re working on that first big chunk. No I take that back, you’re working on little 1,667 word sized bits (give or take) that are slowly being cobbled together to make that big chunk. Really, if you look at it, I’d say you have a pretty sizable chunk already. Just think what it’s going to look like when it’s three times that size!

Take a moment to think about that, just sit back and look at what you’ve gotten done in the last ten days. Maybe it’s not everything you’d hoped for but it’s still pretty cool. Yeah, you’re doing alright.

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Okay, moments over, go write another bit :)

~Rita