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<\/a><\/p>\nHonestly, I didn’t think I was going to win when I first committed to doing it. There were a ton of doubts bouncing in my mind.<\/p>\n
What if I couldn’t stick to getting up early? What if I got migraines from lack of sleep? What if I couldn’t write 50,000 words by the end of November? What if I couldn’t write fiction?<\/p>\n
That was the big one, because truthfully, I never wrote an ounce of fiction in my life. This was my first time attempting to write a novel. I didn’t know what I was doing and quite frankly, still don’t.<\/p>\n
However, what I learned by participating in NanoWriMo, is that when I pushed through my fear and took the plunge, I found out I was capable of a lot more than I thought.<\/p>\n
I discovered I was wired to create stories and write fiction my entire life and didn’t even know it.<\/p>\n
Although, my husband claims to have known, and is my biggest cheerleader.<\/p>\n
What a surprise it was for me though. And to think I would have missed out on it if I didn’t try.<\/p>\n
This was a learning experience for me on many levels. I had to push through the doubts and determine to do it despite my fear of not knowing how to.<\/p>\n
I would have continued to believe that “just showing up” was a clich\u00e9 by the experts, if I had not experienced it for myself.<\/p>\n
Sometimes you don’t need a roadmap, you just have to do it and figure it out as you go.<\/p>\n
Yes, it’s scary. Yes, it seems bigger than life when you first attempt it. But if you keep at it, you learn you are capable of much more than you thought.<\/p>\n
It’s by allowing yourself to try, that courage meets you on the road of creating.<\/p>\n
Writing my first novel was hard, but it was also rewarding. I’m glad I committed to it, stuck with it and won.<\/p>\n
I haven’t finished the novel yet, but I developed the habit of getting up early by doing NanoWriMo and I will continue to write every morning until it’s completed.<\/p>\n
Overall, it’s been a great experience. I would highly recommend it to anyone who has ever considered writing a novel.<\/p>\n
Did you participate in this month’s NanoWriMo for the first time? I would love to hear about your experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I haven’t posted in awhile and that’s because I was participating in the National Novel Writing Month, NanoWriMo. Yesterday morning, I surpassed the 50,000 word mark and won for the very first time. Honestly, I didn’t think I was going to win when I first committed to doing it. There were a ton of doubts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10,117,90],"tags":[716,717,715],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}