It’s been a bit since I posted something to my blog, so I wanted to talk about my grand NaNoWriMo experiment from August-November of last year. Simply put, things did not go as expected.

As each month passed all sorts of personal events kept on intruding to the point where I couldn’t even think of writing much less get my head into completing my goals. I experienced a sort of meltdown in my personal life and this directly affected my writing more than I’d thought possible. Add to this the self-imposed stress of trying to get the draft done before December and you pretty much get a disaster.

But that was last year, and now in this new one, I decided to approach writing differently. Even though my personal and financial life is still in turmoil, I’ve forgiven myself for missing my own deadlines last year and set myself a more workable schedule. I try to write what I can daily, but not under the constraints of NaNoWriMo-type deadline. I think this will give me room to breathe and not paralyze me with stress.

It also gives me the ability to concentrate on stabilizing other parts of my life while keeping the story moving. I’m hopeful that once things work themselves out on one front it’ll make it easier for me to put more effort into writing.

Either way, I will try to post at least something each month about where I am and I hope I have better news to tell then.