Well, it has been ten days since this year's April session of Camp NaNoWriMo drew to a
close. Over 300,000,000 words were written by over 25,000 participants.
15,000 of those words were mine.
I started Camp with
a 25,000 word goal. I based it off of my November NaNo word count of
28,000. But, April proved to be a month of busy weekends (including a
belated birthday party) and lazy days. So, towards the end of the
month, I dropped my word count goal to a more obtainable 15,000.
Seeing the word, WINNER, come up on my screen was both exciting and a
relief. It's the first time since I started participating in NaNo in
2012 that I have won. But that wasn't my only accomplishment.
In early 2009, I
started writing a Power Rangers fanfic. When I began it, I
didn't really know where I was going with it, but the more I wrote,
the more the ideas flowed and came together. This fanfic would come
to be called The Power of Friendship, and it would very
quickly be posted on fanfiction.net. Well, this April's Camp NaNo saw
the completion of that fanfic, including an alternate version of one
chapter. The Power of Friendship is a fanfic I quickly grew to
be proud of and to love writing. I almost didn't want it to end. But
end it had to. My journey of writing it won't truly be over for
another couple days as I haven't yet posted the final chapters. Once
I do, then my journey will end. In truth, I'm sad to see it end, but
I'm also happy it has. Now, the readers who have followed it will
have a completed story to entertain themselves with. If you're a
Power Rangers fan as I am, and wish to read it, you can read
it here: The Power of Friendship
To those of you who
crossed the finish line and made your word count goals:
CONGRATULATIONS! *throws confetti* You did it!!! You made your goal!
You deserve a giant scoop of whatever your favourite sweet is!
To those of you who
didn't quite make your word count goals: CONGRATULATIONS! *throws
confetti* You did it!!! You have written more words than you had in
March, and that's something to celebrate. You also deserve a giant
scoop of whatever your favourite sweet is!
Writing is both easy
and difficult. It is a labour of love as well as labour of hurt. When
we really get into the groove, we can forget to eat and sleep until
our stomachs are on the verge of eating themselves and we are falling
asleep with our heads on our keyboards or our laptops in our laps. We
can lose track of time and lose our touch with reality for a few
hours. However, there are days when the coffee flows far better and
more often than our words do. Those days are hard and frustrating.
But, we get through them and can produce some magical things.
I hope the month of
April and these first few days of May have been kind to you.
Until next time!
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