I’m doing NaNoWriMo! November is National Novel Writing Month. I signed up October 31st and started off with a new Alphasmart on my doorstep and a story at my fingertips.

However, there were a few obstacles. The Alphasmart model I received was defective. After several email and phone conversations, the helpful folks at Renaissance Learning are sending another one on the way. Also, the Nano site was extremely slow and had glitches in the widget word count program, so that’s been off-limits for a few days.

This less than perfect start hasn’t deterred me from writing though. I was able to carve out bits of time to write and am currently at 4563 words in my YA novel. FYI, YA is definitely not the norm for me. I tend to write short pieces like poetry and PB’s. In 2005, I had started Nano on the second week and I proudly reached 35k words. I know I’ll need to pick up my pace to reach 50k this time. I want to earn a Nano medal. And if I get a decent story from this, all the better.

The above image is from the Nano store. I will buy myself one when I reach 25k words—half-way to the finish for a shiny, new red mug!

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