Again...

Again with the lack of a "real" tea post. I'm sorry guys. I swear I haven't lost it! I swear...

Recently I've been thinking back to my NaNo novel from 2011, and even before that, my novel from 2007. I took a break at the end of November, after I crested the 50k mark. I haven't touched it since.

Instead I moved to editing the novel from 2007, one that I love but one that needs more work than anything else. So I started to it, with a printed copy and a red pen in hand. I tore that manuscript to bits....

And now I have to re-type it. The bane of my current situation.

So here it is, how do you push through the hard parts of writing? How do you keep going?

!!!

Dear Blog:

I finished 50,000 words in 26 days, validated it and everything. I would like you to know that I managed for the first time in about 12 years to win NaNoWriMo.

Me. This Pooka. I won.

See???? They even gave me a nifty badge thingie!

I'm really excited that I actually won, and ahead of schedule. Mind you, my story might be half done, if I'm lucky... So I still have a lot more to write (and I'm working on it too!).

On top of that I'm going through and editing MORE of the novel that I started for NaNo 2007, and didn't finish until '08 or '09.

Maybe, just maybe both of these will some day go to beta readers. (fingers crossed here)