Fall usually ties me up with festive cheer and makes snuggly and content with life. This November has been a blustering nightmare of one test of my soul after another. I closed out the month of October by returning home from Italy, doing a few blog posts, and prepping for NANOWRIMO (writing a 50,000 word novel in a month).
Oh… and finding out that after six years, Russell and I would be separating.
After the month of November has passed by me… looking back on it. I am glad I was taking a break from blogging. I am glad that I wasn’t just dumping a bunch of emotional diarrhea out into public for the world to see. That really only looks childish and sad. Sometimes it is necessary to vent, and I get that. But my blog is a public forum where once I put it out there, I can’t take it back.
Before I get ahead of myself let’s talk about NANOWRIMO.
OMG writing a book in a month is hard. I did not succeed. But, I didn’t fail either. I wrote 35,000 words, that’s the furthest I have ever taken a sentence. 🙂 I have the attention span of a squirrel.
Really. A squirrel. A Super Squirrel, but a squirrel non the less.
What this does give me however is the first 3/4’s of a novel. I am pretty impressed with that.
Now let’s talk about the blog. Oh… I have missed the blogging world. I have missed daily writing that was close to me and didn’t cause me to use my imagination but instead was a sort of live journal. The place I go to get things out of my head so that I can move on from them. I know I was in the middle of a story, and it will continue. My very next post will be a continuation of that story.
Also in blogging news I was nominated again for the Versatile Blogger Award, and that is incredibly flattering. I also received two emails in the last two weeks stating that I had earned new fans and that they were hoping to read more soon. I have not responded to those emails yet, but I wanted my readers to know I did get them, and they are deeply appreciated.
On the home front… wow. A LOT has changed in our house. It is once again me and the girls on our own, and adapting to it being just the three of us in the house has caused me many sleepless nights even though I have ADT, a GLOCK, and a German Shepherd. Sigh. Facepalm.
I am looking forward to catching up on all the blogs I have missed while being completely self indulgent. 🙂 I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and I look forward to hearing from you all soon!
Jeanna, your life sounds like shades of mine. One challenge after another. Congratulations on 35,000 words. Your line, “…that’s the furthest I have ever taken a sentence.” is priceless.
I’m glad you plan on finishing your story, It probably has a different ending than we (and maybe you) expected. I found it hard but cathartic to write about my separation, even though it only happened a couple of years ago this fall. Stories for the distant past, I find, are easier to tell.
Take care and know that we’ll be here when you are.
All the best,
Lorna
Is it weird that the hardest part of writing a story… is writing the ending… as long as the story is still going, the characters are still going, and it seems extremely difficult to tie them to an ending. A fate persey… hmmm.
I can’t wait to catch up on your blog, it always brings me comfort and laughs, you do such a trememdous job of laughing at yourself, and I think that is the best therapy in the whole world. When you let go of something enough to see the humor in it… you’ve done it. You’re there!
Glad you are back. Sending a cyberhug.
Thanks Bella! I will take it!!
Love ya! Nothing else needed to say! 🙂
I’m proud of you! and I am so glad you are blogging again!
I’m glad you’re back. Things may seem difficult right now, but everything will be okay.
Congrats on the 35,000 words. Oh, and I love Super Squirrel.
A glock? Really? That’s pretty darn impressive!
Chris, thanks for all of the encouragement, I appreciate it bunches! I really am thrilled with my word count, I have a great start to a story, and my mind frazzled out on me. LOL. I will get it finished.
I’ve really missed seeing you around Blogtown but, reading this post I really understand. It seems to have been a hell of a month for you, both good and bad. I’m not too sure how your’e viewing it all but positively, well done on the writing front. 35,000 words is no mean achievement, and if they are a similar quality to your Blog posts I Iook forward to reading them at some future time.
I often think how our connections in the blogoshere compare with our real life connections, so to speak, and I am aware that they are fragile. Having said that I always enjoy your posts, am concerned with how you are and think of you of one of those people with whom I have formed some kind of friedship on here. My thoughts are with you
Ducks, I’ve missed you too! I am glad to be back, I kind of feel like I am home here. Strange huh? 😛
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I’m glad you took the time to catch us up. I imagine you will be busy as you deal with another transition in your interesting life! We’ll be here for you in terms of cyber support. Only a click or two away. Take care – my thoughts are with you and your family.
Thanks Phil! I can’t wait to catch up on your blog too, I am getting some reading in this weekend! I can’t wait!
November was an amazing month! Not to mention it’s the month of my birthday 🙂