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You can read my experiences trying to learn to fly here.

I'm putting together plenty of words.

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I did not do NaNoWriMo this year. As it turns out, because of various issues in my family that have come up, it is a good thing I didn't have that stress. However, I'm still churning out a "story" with thousands of words.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

And I've been steadily working on a project in which I have told myself to complete at least a page every two days. I have been busy with pencils and inking pens and erasers, and some day, when I get a large stack of pages and I decide I have enough.... I'm going to kick that measly 50,000 word NaNoWriMo total to the ground.

So to speak.

The best thing about NaNoWriMo isn't the generally lackluster novels that are cranked out, but the fact that it serves to spur people on from being, as one of NaNoWriMo's downloadable posters puts it, a "one day novelist" (i.e. "one day I'd like to be a novelist").

I'm spurring myself on, with this project. It's a challenge. Do you know how much contortion it takes to spur yourself on?

You imagine that for a minute.

I'm not forcing a time constraint for completion, like NaNoWriMo, but I am forcing myself to write and draw and ink and I'm finding that with the continued focus, whether forced or "inspired", I'm able to actually produce.

It's late. It's been a long day full of work and personal challenges, but I have a page to produce and I have an idea on which to build it.

Didn't do NaNoWriMo?

Do it your own way. Kick your own butt. Produce whatever it is your talent produces, even if it's crap. Once you get that out of your system, you'd be amazed at what's been hiding under it all this time.