NaNoWriMO is over for another year. Who fell behind? I fell behind! Just call me Mister Eight Thousand. Sure I’ve been busy editing Blood Crossing all month, but surely I could have found a spare hour here or there to right? I looked here, I looked there, but no spare hour did I find.
I remain glad I entered the QWC Writing Race though. Held at their soon-to-be-old venue, there were twenty writers in a room, feverishly hammering away on their keyboards. I found this very motivating. All those keyboards being tapped away, I couldn’t resist adding my own tapping to the noise. Two hours and three and a half thousand words later and I had found a new hobby. Writing racing!
I didn’t come first (third overall in word count I think) but I had great fun, and started a whole new manuscript, ready to take over when Blood Crossing is doing the rounds. Which is nice.
Out of this experience I can only say – writing can be a solitary activity, but it doesn’t have to be. Give writing with others a go, not a collaborative work, just writing next to one another. You might find it motivating too.
