The WDC NanoLounge

Is anyone else off to a slow start this year?

November is always a challenging time for me. There are a bunch of late October/ Early November birthdays that need celebrated, this is usually right around the time my seasonal affective disorder kicks in, work gets a little crazy, etc. But these are challenges I face every single year of NaNo and I just seem to be really struggling with them this year specifically.

Also, a lot of what I've written seems terrible.

Not that my NaNo project is ever the best project I do that year, but usually I'm proud of it. I'll be able to go back and read a chapter and be like "this is rough, but I can see how well it will clean up when I have some real editing time." Everything I'm reading back the last couple days just seems off.

It's giving me a little bit of anxiety because I'm usually feeling a lot better at this point in the month.