“I’m exhausted. I spent all morning putting in a comma and all afternoon taking it out.”  Oscar Wilde

I wish this is where I was with my novel. It would mean I had finished it. That I had made it to 50K words already. That I had conquered week 4 of NaNoWriMo. But I haven’t.  Instead I’m sitting around 38,000 and while I know where I want to go with my story (for the most part) before the end of the month, the end of the month is getting here too quickly!

I had planned on writing a ton while my husband took a long hunting trip before Thanksgiving.  I was also going to print out fun, turkey crossword puzzles and coloring pages and call that school work.

Instead, I’m sitting alone (thank God for grandparents) in my house blowing my nose and coughing and swallowing shards of broken glass. I have strep and a sinus infection.  I stayed so healthy while all of my kids and my husband fought off various illnesses through October and November (yay vitamins!) but now I’m drowning in snot and pain and a Nyquil induced buzz.  All of which is causing my word count to stand still.

I will not quit though. And even if I have to write 10,000 words on November 30th, it will all be worth it because I’ll have written my first novel.

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