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This is the first year I'm taking part in a legally distinct November writing challenge. I am still fairly new to resdiscovering writing as a hobby so I'm not going to be sharing much (if any) of the actual text I'm writing but did want to make some kind of document of my journey.

I'm working on an original story that has been living in my brain rent free for the past...5 years. and I'm trying to exorcise the demons. Drawing my OCs is not enough anymore, I need the book (books..???) to exist, and I'm the only one who can write it. I have stopped and restarted this project Twice already so here's to actually making it all the way to the end this time. No less than 5 days in I had a eentsy little crash out and seriously considered doing it for a Third time, but I'm trying not to do that again and actually finish writing a draft. So now the document is just kind of. cursed. While I try and figure out what the hell I want to do. That's okay. No-one ever needs to see it but me.

I started this month at 5,953 words and, while I don't have any particular word count in mind, my goal for the month is just to write something every day. At the beginning of the month I felt like 50k words was a…generous goal, to say the least, but now that we are halfway though I can proudly say I am on track for 50k.I had a couple days where I went absolutely hog wild and wrote 4000+ words to make up for a few days when I only wrote and 500 words and it's worked out to me being: well ahead, actually. As of now I'm at 35,353 words and going strong. It has been so much fun to see everyone's progress in the community and on the Trackbear leaderboard. It is my favourite part of the day before I start writing to check in on everyone.

Anyways. I've been having fun. Writing is fun. If you are on Pillowfort and are participating in Pillowrimo, and haven't already joined the Trackbear tracker, you can find it here. I'll check in again at the end of the month with how the rest of the challenge went.