As you may or may not have noticed, I’d been a writing slacker as of late.  I decided to use NaNoWriMo this year to push my novel forward.  I really have no expectations of actually getting 50K words written this month, but it’s doing what I wanted it to do:

Getting me writing again!

I’ve added over 2K words at this point, which may not seem like a lot, but for me it really is.  I’m a very busy person with WAY too much on my plate, so writing has had to take a back seat for a while.  This has been frustrating because I love my story and I know exactly where I want it to go, but getting it there has been such a struggle.

I started writing ‘for real’  in 2009 and that was when my high school friend Regan sent me a random message on Facebook talking about the novel SHE was writing.  I still think this was super weird because, though we’d stayed friends over the years, we hadn’t talked-talked in a while.  It’s strange how that one Facebook message set us right back on the friendship we’d carried for years.  I can honestly say I wouldn’t write at all anymore if I didn’t have her friendship and motivation.  She’s awesome.

Did I mention she’s a rockstar? 

Writing has opened my mind up, giving me the avenue toward creativity that I’d craved, but didn’t know how to fulfill, so I’m so thankful to back at it again!  Hopefully, I won’t hit another lull and have to wait until next November to get jump started again. :D