Failing at NaNoWriMo

So I am failing at NaNoWriMo.

By fail, I mean I am not writing enough to make that 50,000 word goal at the end of November.

This wasn’t my personal goal but it does linger as a possibility in the back of mind. Maybe, just maybe, I could write 50,000 words. I have done it before.

Unfortunately, I have been punishing myself for my inadequacy. Making myself depressed and angry for not fulfilling something I have known is not my way of writing. I don’t just write to put words on the page. It’s not me.

It was nice to see that others felt the same way I do.

We don’t have to push ourselves or punish ourselves to write if that’s not what’s happening.

We don’t have to kill that part of ourselves just to fulfill some arbitrary goal.