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Yay, acs's DS! I'm so pleased!

I've decided to save the program's e-mailed pep talks--unread!--and use them this summer when I actually have the time and support necessary to write. I'll have my own NaNoWriMo in June or July...or both! Maybe I can finish book #2 in 60 days. Wouldn't that be nice!

Wow - that's fabulous acs. Congratulate your DS from me. I was gung-ho the first weekend, and then life called. And that was that. But I did get some positives out of the experience. I'm very impressed with your DS.

Good luck Kriston on book 2 - good idea about saving the encouragement emails.

Any plans to keep chipping away at it, SPG, even though November is over? I thought you had some good ideas, and it would be nice to see you keep going, even if the going is slow. You don't have to write a whole book in one month, you know. You could just write a book...

Just a thought. No pressure!

Thanks SPG and Kriston!

DS has always been a bit distractible and tends to start a lot of projects, but finish only a few. He's a dabbler. I really thought this would just be added to the list of unfinished projects around the house. But this was totally different. It was a side of him I have never seen before.

We all gathered around the computer yesterday when he submitted it and when the "You Won!" screen came up, we all cheered. It was fabulous.

I think that December is Novel Finishing Month for those pesky novels you have started but not finished. But who the heck has time to finish a novel in December?!?

LOL! Oh, I couldn't agree more! December is "Get nothing accomplished" month around here.

Novel? What novel?

Thanks for the compliment, Kriston. I think I will keep plugging away at it. But definitely after the holidays. Why on earth would they have December be a write-anything month?

Well, I have received some Christmas letters that sounded more like drafts, some that were long enough to be novels and others I believe to be fictional. So perhaps it is an appropriate designation.

Yee-haw! That works for me!