Depending on how you look at it, it’s either completely pathetic that I can only get in here once a month to blog, or it’s FANFREAKINGTASTIC that I’m so busy with life that I have no time to blog! (Choose your own adventure!)
Here’s the short of it…
Some of you may already know that instead of doing NaNoWriMo this month I chose to run a marathon and focus on finishing my work in progress (WIP). Well, let me tell ya, I made the right choice! The marathon was amazing! By far the best race I’ve ever run. Most of that had to do with my teammates, 14 of the coolest people I’ve met in a long time, but the other part of it was just that I set a HUGE goal (I’m not exactly athletically inclined) and I reached it! Not only that, I blew it out of the water. Ok… maybe I wouldn’t go that far, but that’s how it felt! I ran faster than I thought I could, I had more fun than I thought was possible and I bought myself a designer purse to celebrate. Who wouldn’t enjoy that?
My Las Vegas Ragnar team – The Pukin’ Pirates! I’m the one with the huge fro on the right. I ran leg 5 – 26.2 miles. Then I partied like only a pirate rock star could! Arrrrrrg!
When I got home from this big adventure, it took a few days for me to settle back into writing. We’ve had lots of sick kids and holiday happenings. I finally buckled down and in one day I wrote over 8,500 words! This felt like finishing another marathon to me – FANFREAKINGTASTIC! I only have one chapter to go, the big reunion, happy ending, cliffhanger… bum bum bum… I know exactly how I want it to play out, but for some reason, I just haven’t let it out of my head yet. I’m thinking of starting revisions first and then seeing if that’s really how I want to wrap it all up. For the sake of my beta readers, who have been reading along as I write in google docs, I think I’ll go ahead and write it up then change it later.
What is it about that last chapter that’s so special? So heavy?? It’s like saying goodbye to a weekend – the last hour before you go to sleep on Sunday night. Does anyone else ever dwell on that moment/chapter like I do? Maybe I’m just clingy. What do you think?
If I don’t blog much over the holidays, assume it’s because I’m laying around somewhere watching twinkly rainbow lights and sipping eggnog while my children destroy hundreds of dollars worth of new toys.
CHEERS! And thanks for reading 
