Winning isn’t everything

Here I am again, the good side of NaNoWriMo’s finish line. I’m far from the first to cross it, and in just 2 more days, a few hundred thousand other writers across the globe will have joined us. It’s a good feeling, as long as I don’t think about what comes next:

Revising.

Last night I dreamt about being given an old jigsaw puzzle — a symbol so obvious that I can’t pretend I don’t get it. My draft is all out of order, teems with inconsistencies, even lacks some critical pieces.

Let’s see if I can drag a novel out of it before April.

About Lizzie Ross

in no particular order: author, teacher, cyclist, world traveler, single parent. oh, and i read. a lot.
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