Our posts this month are themed “Sharing” on the
Write...Edit...Publish Blogfest
which is hosted monthly by
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This month I’ve noticed that many folks have shared the traditions
that they follow with their families on
Thanksgiving. I thought about our
traditions and found we don’t have too many. When it comes to food, my mother
makes dressing and fights with my brother-in-law about who makes the turkey.
(LOL!) My bro-in-law is a great cook, so is my mother and my “other” dad and so
we always eat well during the holidays. But we don’t have traditions in that we
do the same thing every year. Take this year, my husband and I will stay home
and celebrate “the” day with very dear friends who are adopted family. And so,
we will discover new things to do, new things to eat and it will be a new way
of celebrating what we are thankful for.
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| Mary Burton and me |
I’m looking forward to it because I’ve spent the vast
majority of this month right here, in front of this computer, spewing words in
a daily feast of creation, producing, as
Mary
Burton calls it, my “sloppy draft” of a new novel. The last few years I’ve
spent revising two novels. This is the first sloppy draft I’ve done in way too
long. I thank the month of November and those who help put together
NaNoWriMo, so that I could profit from it this
year. I was afraid of it. Thought it would be too difficult to put 50,000 words
down in one month.
I am proud to share
with you that I was very, very wrong. I’m now at 75,666 words and today is the 30
th day of the month. This story flowed from me with an ease
that makes me know it was meant to be told. I put the speed of the writing down
in part to the conference I went to in October (battery recharge), to the
workshop giving by
Mary Burton and the
fact that I actually wrote an outline of what I thought I could do with the
month of November before I started the actual writing.
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| Mary Burton, Author |
In this month of sharing, I am aware of being thankful,
truly grateful, for the chance to write as I love to write, to have a family I
cherish, friends whom I love and who love me, and that even when I find
something to worry about (I’m a serial worrier), I am deeply blessed.
Happy Thanksgiving. May you each be encircled with happiness
and love... and, if you need some lovin’ and happiness, I don’t mind sharing.
You’re welcome to some of mine!
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