cautionary-tales

Hi, my name is Melissa Blue and I’m obsessive. Last year, during NaNo, it worked to my advantage. I wrote 50,000 words in 16 days. I waited another week and picked up my winner certificate. I gloated and preened.

Ok. Not exactly in that order. First my brains leaked out of my ears. I slept for 24 hours straight. When I woke up and found that no more leakage from the head had occurred. I gloated and preened. When NaNo finally put up it’s winner certificate, I happily printed out and gloated and preened some more. Sometime on Wednesday when Harlequin did a Lady Gaga Flaming Piano, I sorta lost focus.

Well, sorta in an obsessive way. I’ve written exactly six pages since Wednesday. Six pages.

Did I also forget to mention I was 2500 words away from 50k?

Yeah, let me be a cautionary tale. Do not refresh. Do not pass go. Go straight back to your WIP. You can read about this stuff later. Also, don’t write so much your brain starts to leak out your ears.

You can thank me for saving your sanity later. But first tell me whatcha been doing?