Happy Thanksgiving and a NaNo Update!

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Happy Thanksgiving to all of my readers and NaNo-ers from the US. I hope everyone enjoyed reading the two articles that I wrote and shared the past two weeks as well as the first NaNo update I shared. Because this can be a busy holiday for people here in the states I know that the word counts won't get added too, but I thought I would share some encouraging words today with a brief update on how I am doing.

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In my last update, I mentioned how I had made a calendar with a personal word goal for each day on it as well as using an outline and doing research on several different topics. Well, I have managed to keep up and still stay on top of my word count even though I started my job at Kohl's last week. Over the past couple of weeks, I have noticed that I tend to write the most at night when my family is starting to either head off to bed or sit in a different room quietly reading. Typically that happens between 9:00 - 10:00 pm, sometimes starting around 8:30, but time doesn't really matter because I tend to put earbuds in and turn on my Spotify playlist and start typing.

As often as I think I need quiet/silence to focus when I write, I often find that I write better when I have background noise going on around me. Which is why I often listen to words with lyrics when I have music on while writing. I also can sit in places like Starbucks or Panera Bread and be able to get words out because it is all background noise and doesn't interrupt very often. When its a movie or a TV show for background noise then it is a bit of a different story because it is more distracting and you end up concentrating on that instead of writing.

Last week while I was working on my story one evening I named a semi-important side character Simon and I had a moment where I almost spell it as Sighmon...but I caught myself in time before I had written it. My first casualty for NaNo was a bug and it wasn't in my novel...It was on my computer screen if that counts at all... And to add to the fun of writing a novel in 30 days nothing shows "I need new ideas to add to my novel" better than a car catching on fire and Sir Lancelot showing up in the living room and eating pineapple while the MC is trying to have a serious conversation with him about something.

Well, that is all I have for today's update! If I don't post an update on the 30th, I will post one sometime in the beginning of December to let you all know how I did. In the meantime here are the links for the two articles that I wrote and shared, in case you missed them before.

 Tolkien and Lewis on Fantasy and Magic and Invitation to Murder: Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys.

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