And no, I am not an official participant. Only in spirit, because in this house, it’s always NaNoWriMo. Which makes me feel like Mork when I say that out loud.
Anyway, for those of you who need some extra mental encouragement, think of what Po Bronson says about writers needing community:
At school, for at least one night a week, I sat down beside people who thought nothing was more important than making a sentence sing � Who believed that having a story accepted by a small journal with a readership of a 1,000 librarians was just about the most prestigious accomplishment imaginable � Who had chosen, like me, to compromise their love lives and their work life to carve out time for being alone with their thoughts and a pencil � Who had received rejection letter after rejection letter, and who had been called “impractical” by their parents. I can�t emphasize enough the sway of being in a community of like-minded people…Because the hardest thing was not learning to write; the hardest thing was to never give up.
Remember, when you’re writing this month—or any month, day, year, or moment stolen at school, home, or work: You are not alone.