Every Writer Fails

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Recently I posted this overly ambitious article: 21 Fall Writing Prompts to Tackle This October 🎃. In it, I talked about how I was going to write a few autumn-related fiction short stories in the month of October.

I talked about how announcing this goal on Medium would hold me accountable, and how doing this challenge would help exercise my writing muscles for NaNoWriMo in November.

Well, not only did I NOT finish a single short story in October (though I did start writing one), but I also only got ⅓ of my goal written for NaNo.

I consider this a personal failure from a writer’s standpoint.

I like to blame it on the fact that I literally interviewed for a job, got the job, and then uprooted my life and moved myself and my dog across the country in the last few whirlwind weeks, but really, I just never showed up to the writing.

Sometimes the stars aren’t in position for this writing session…

I played The Sims 4 and Baldur’s Gate 3 and read a bunch of books. I went on nice long walks with my dog and finally started seeing my long-distance boyfriend in person for more than just a little while (now that we live closer). I had a GREAT time…