How do I start this post without sounding like an insane writer? I can’t. So I’m just going to start off by saying I’m having NaNoWriMo withdrawals..
Withdrawals? You ask. There’s nothing like waking up frantically from a well deserved nap and freaking out because you need to write to update that wordcount of yours. That has happened to me for the past several days. Then I realize that its over and I finished my 50K and can’t go back to sleep after that.
So if you see me tweeting at four or even eight in the morning, trust that I have not gone to sleep that morning (or night) but that’s only the result of NaNo eating your soul. Not that I wasn’t an insomniac before NaNo, but insomnia has bumped up to the third power with this whole ‘can’t sleep, my novel will eat me’ stuff.
I miss sleep. A lot. But I can’t go to sleep, even though I know I will be a walking zombie the next day or the whole month for that matter. The problem is that I can’t STAY asleep. I wake up from a nightmare that I somehow didn’t make it across the finish line by like three words and then I cry. Totally lame, I know. But that’s what happens when you don’t sleep for almost a whole month and struggle to catch up on your wordcount.
I’m slowly returning to normal. And? I had four hours of sleep last night (I think?) Soo I’m getting there. Still have the bags under my eyes to prove I’m a zombie. But I know ill see a lot of the characteristics I have on a bunch on other people at the TGIFO party with a bunch of crazy-ass writers who were insane enough to write 50K or more words in a month.
So now I’m going (to try) to catch up on my reader because I haven’t I’ve been neglecting it. But right now its pretty tempting to click mark all as read and force myself to sleep. But not before I make breakfast and all of that. It just isn’t right to have over nine hundred unread items in your reader. I should totally hire someone to read them for me and summarize them in three words like oh so and so is pregnant and look! Wedding pictures! But yeah.
Oh! Tomorrow we are going to the Neiman Marcus Children’s parade in Dallas! Yay! This will be my daughters first parade and I know she’s going to love it! Oh and did you know I was in that same parade way back in 2003? Uh-huh. True story! That’s all for now.
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aawweee, hang in there, we’ll get through this.
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