Good morning, fellow scribes!
How was your weekend? I broke 2,000 words yesterday, which puts me right on track to hit my 5,000-word goal by the end of the month. To maybe "win" NaNoWriMo for the second year in a row. That alone worth celebrating.
But so is this: I didn't give up.
Writing doesn't come naturally to me. Telling stories does, but sometimes getting the words from my brain to the page is a...challenge. So yesterday, when I stuck it out to write almost 250 words (even though I had so many fun things I wanted to be doing), I breathed a sigh of relief.
And then, I celebrated. How? Well, I'll get to that in a minute...but let me start with WHY.
Sure, NaNoWriMo is a challenge accepted by hundreds of thousands of writers across North America (and maybe the world!) but the only person I'm truly accountable to is myself. And yesterday, I hit a major milestone—2,000 words on the same day as last year's milestone. That's important to me because I'm showing progress.
So yes, I celebrated. By watching football with my dad. The Edmonton Eskimos aren't in the CFL playoffs this year, but we cheered for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (who won) and the Saskatchewan Roughriders (who didn't win), while eating potato chips and popcorn, and drinking cream soda, my favourite pop.
It was the perfect way to spend the day after working hard to not only meet my word count goal, but exceed it.
Celebrating milestones is important, whether you're doing a NaNoWriMo challenge, or simply pushing yourself to do something different, something out of your comfort zone. How have you celebrated lately?
Gotta jet! I've got more writing to do. If that's how you're spending some of your day, may the words be in your favour...
~ Chase Superman Duffy
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