A warm and pros­per­ous New Year!

All through the month prior to NaNoW­riMo I had planned to cap­ture my daily jour­ney through this fran­tic jour­ney of NaNoW­riMo. But as the month approached and went by, it dawned on me how her­culean an effort it needed. Not that the task is dif­fi­cult, but because I had not done any active writ­ing for over the last cou­ple of years. I felt a lot of anx­i­ety, ner­vous­ness, bouts of self doubt in try­ing to accom­plish the goal. It was like a hur­ri­cane had hit me. Ideas explod­ing in my mind, con­stant chat­ter among the char­ac­ters of my novel. It hardly left me with anyv­time and space for any­thing else. (more…)