Our next meeting is this coming Saturday, November 20th, 2021, from 2PM to 4PM at the Westfield Athenaeum on the corner of Elm and Court Streets in downtown Westfield across from the Green. This meeting will take place in the Whitney Study on the second floor as there will be fiddlers in the Lang Auditorium in the basement near the Committee Meeting Room that our last two meetings have been in- the scheduler felt it would be too noisy for writers and we wouldn't be able to hear one another. So, go up the staircase in the main room on the first floor, turn left and continue into the study which is above the children's library with windows overlooking Court Street. There is a long conference table and about 15-20 seats around it. In the downstairs room we've been sitting around three tables pushed together into a large square. There is only one table in the study. See you there!
Saturday, November 13, 2021
November 2021 NaNoWriMo is nearly Half Over
I have to admit that I've been struggling this year writing my NaNo novel. I'm writing the third book in the Amberton Paranormal Investigation Society series (The Fairlawn Investigation and The Victoria Wayfarer Investigation being the first and second books in the series). The new novel is titled The Lakeside Manor Investigation. I'd previously started writing this novel twice and got nowhere with it. The second attempt was better than the first. This version is creeping along at a snail's pace, for me anyway. I suppose it's because I am still recovering and working my way through the loss of my husband six months ago. I haven't felt much like writing or drawing because dealing with the aftermath of losing someone unexpectedly is confusing, anxiety inducing, and exhausting.
I will get it finished because I hate to leave things incomplete, but at the near mid-point of NaNoWriMo I don't have my usual confidence that I can pull off a compete novel. 50,000 words of it will be written as I'm close to that goal now but I can't say for sure I have the same level of confidence in myself that I had prior to my world falling to pieces this past May. We'll just have to wait and see how it all goes.