From mid-November into the first week of January is the hardest time for me to find time to write. (Exception: visiting family or vacations) Why, oh, why does NaNoWriMo fall in this time? But any time is a good time for fellow writers to give each other a push, even busy times.
Yesterday our company left. Today I’m doing a ton of laundry and also setting up Christmas decorations. YET, this morning, I found time to do some precious raw writing – that is, rough draft blabbering – on my WIP story. It felt incredibly good! Maybe that’s one of the reasons I write. When I’m thinking about the story, or typing madly away on it, knowing that about 3/4 of the stuff I think or write will be deleted, I get so excited about the story and the characters.
I actually look forward in January to looking over this (unfinished) WIP and chopping away pages and pages. Mind you, I don’t feel those deleted words were a waste of effort. Sometimes going off-track frees my brain to be thinking outside my box (story outline), and often very strange and wonderful things happen.
So I hope you are blabbering away, doing your raw writing, knowing that soon the bad will be tossed and the good, kept.
Keep on writing.
Author Sandy Carlson 
Thank you for this reminder. It can be hard to let go and just write. I needed to hear this!
You’re welcome, Suzanne. Writers need to encourage each other. So quit reading this and go writ something. 🙂
WRITE, I meant. You see, blabbering even in a reply does not mean you must revise. (Shaking my head in shame, hoping you’ll believe that.)
Hahaha! No shame necessary–you were just giving a great example of raw writing! 😀
Suzanne: 🙂
Your words of encouragement are appreciated especially during this holiday season. Thanks.
And I hope you are able to find writing moments this season.