So two years ago a co-worker told me about National Novel Writers Month or in short NaNoWriMo. That year I tried it out. The goal is 50K words and I made it to maybe 5-6K. I felt like I had failed. Since then I had not tried again but kept the goal in my mind and still received emails from the site. So at the end of April I learned that the site also does a camp in April and again in July. At this camp you can write anything, it doesn't have to be a novel and it can be any word length you choose. I decided hey I am on break from school and have plenty of ideas. So I signed up and every day I wrote. On weekends I didn't write which set me back a bit. I started disliking my story. I didn't think I could reach my small goal of 15K. I felt like a loser because everyone else had goals of 25K or more. I slowly convinced myself my goal was OK because my short story did not require any more than my set goal. Just five days ago I worried I would not have enough time being as I was over 4k words away but yesterday I finished a whole day early and finally won! I passed my goal by a mere 25 words but I did it! Now I can finally move on!
