I don’t mean to sound negative! I’m just being realistic.
Nano is 8 days in, and despite my efforts, I am just past 3K words. November really has not been my month! It started off strongly, but Sunday, everything just took a nose dive. My favorite teacher died, for starters. That carried me through Tuesday. I came home early on Sunday to discover the post on my newsfeed. I was MISERABLE. That teacher was the one who got me into photography, and pushed me to try new things. I feel like he’s the one who got me here, working for Disney as a photographer. He really changed my life, and a lot of other students lives as well…they established a scholarship fund in his name the next day, that’s how big of a deal he was to people.
Monday I was still sad, so I went to play in Magic Kingdom before work, to take my mind off things. Tuesday was my day off, and I was feeling guilty because I really don’t want to go to the funeral. I haven’t been to a funeral in close to ten years, and I spent that time reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone because I was so weirded out by everything. I can’t do funerals. I just…can’t. So Tuesday I was feeling guilty, and one of my friends told me that I could submit a memorial for a special edition of our school paper. So I spend most of my day working on that. 200 words and it took me the entire day. And a lot of crying.
Wednesday was rejection day. My Disney program extension was denied. SAD DAY. I started to panic and had to fill out an application for part-time. Thursday was rejection from DLR program. Panic very much setting in. Spent a lot of time researching my options.
So now it’s Saturday. Yesterday was the first Christmas party in Magic Kingdom. I managed one paragraph! Be proud of me. Right now I have my iPad charging so I can bring it to work with me. I will get more done. It might not be 50K, but I feel what is important is that I am working on this daily, which is more than I did before. I’m very proud of myself.
(But I’m still going to try for 50K.)
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