Welcome Back

The hiatus is over. I would like to say that I succeeded and won the challenge of NaNoWriMo but unfortunately I did not.

You see, life got in the way.

Instead of spending the month writing as I intended, I moved to a new apartment and had to unpack my 13 bookcases and the boxes of books that accompany them. Having my library stored in boxes makes me uncomfortable and a little claustrophobic in my very small apartment.

Still, moving wasn't sudden and I was originally prepared to fit that and writing into the same month. However, I also was asked to double my freelance writing tasks and with Christmas coming, I needed the work and the income.

I did manage to write about half of the words but I couldn't complete the task. I will keep trying to finish the draft now that I have a decent start. I was also distracted from my novel writing by the fact that a few days in to writing the story, it changed from a chick lit woman coping with life after living in a war zone to a ghost story that I found very distressing.

Still I was reminded of a vital lesson about writing and about life - rarely do you get what you planned but if you keep working, you can get something better and more interesting than you ever expected.