So My Idea For NaNoWriMo Was Stalled, So What😣?

‘Life is a song, sing it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a sacrifice, offer it. Life is love, enjoy it.’

Ashok Kushwaha.

Life indeed is so much for us everyday.

Of course, as the quote tells us:

Life is a challenge…

And that is exactly what writing is all about… creating a new & different type of challenge for those that choose it📝🖨️.

Whether you choose to write poetry or go the whole hog and take on an entire 50,000 -word book, it is a life challenge that you chose to embark upon.

But, just as in life itself, it is not easy to commit to or accomplish within a set timescale, and sometimes, try as you might, your challenge hits a roadblock😤 and you think about why you even bothered?

Then again, just as in life, stumps & roadblocks get in the way of everything don’t they, so what do we do to get around it when this happens?

Do we run with our tails between our legs into the nearest foxhole?

No!

Do we run to our bedroom, hide under the duvet and simply give up?

No!

We take a short break, get back up, and try again.

The first introduction into attempting my NaNoWriMo adventure stumbled like a racehorse at the second hurdle.

But just like the smurf, I got right back up and started again.

What got in the way?

Simple, life got in the way. It happens to all of us. We get challenged everyday that passes us by don’t we? But it is how we manage it that really does count.

My stumble was Long Covid.

My original planned attempt was talked about in my next article below.

You see, I really did not expect that long after the virus had left me, that I would still be suffering on, but hey, thats, life isn’t it?

Still, what I did manage to succeed with was the first 11,500-words for my novel in that month. I suppose that I had never actually bargained for the Long Covid symptoms still to be impacting on my life after a year from being discharged home from hospital.

But that’s life for you, a spanner in the works is always just around the corner waiting to pounce!

My solution was to slow down, regroup so to speak, and get back on the horse🐎and start again from where I had left off.

Meanwhile I have been spending my time resting, revising thoughts, and accepting that life will always have it’s setbacks for me. What I want to show you is that in life, we get out of it what we put into it. Being physically disabled is not the end of the road.

The road carries on and so do you but just at a slower speed now…

So I‘m continuing to write, read, and comment, getting to know more and more of the great writers here on medium that are in abundance. The more I read, the more I discover that I am definitely not alone here. Indeed everyone has their own battles through life that they are dealing with.

So if you feel alone, talk, because many are willing to listen & share their own accounts of challenges that life has handed them too.

Even though my novel has not reached fruition, it’s not a fail but remains my challenge. I have my own publication here on medium, which I share the load with my wife Carol Townend entitled Creative Passions. But as you can see, writing has and always will continue to provide a life-long daily challenge for me.

There are always options in life for you to seek out and explore. Wtiting is simply one of the many just waiting for you to find and try for yourself.

Speaking as a past mental health practitioner too, writing is great for supporting your own mental health too.

If you haven’t already done so, why not give it a go?

Mental Health Matters…

Thank you all for taking time to read this today💖.

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