well, it was something.

As projected, I didn't reach the 50,000 word mark. I didn't even make it halfway. But that is totally okay, because I am still writing. I wrote a little over 14,000 words during November, which is more than I had written in any previous months. And that's something, right? Right. I have continued to write and have written over 3500 words since the beginning of December, and my story is progressing and coming together, finally. My faithful Snippets are to get some credit. Though we're not together, drinking good coffee drinks and chai and sitting in papasan chairs surrounded by fluffy cushions in Moments, we are still meeting and talking about our stories. And that is what helps continue to drive me to write. I so appreciate the feedback and encouragement of my fellow Snippets, Ellar and Amethyst (or Pixie, if you like), and meeting with them regularly has been the catalyst that I needed to write more often and the encouragement I needed to remember that first drafts aren't perfect. It's the birthing process of the story and it's not always pretty, it's rarely pretty in fact. Their discussions and feedback have helped me reconcile the two major plot strands of my novel, which was no small feat, and that has given me a new gusto for writing and finding out what happens next.

So what happens next? Well, I think it's time for the Fair Folk to make an real appearance. What say?