I didn’t hit my goal of 50k words (I think I hit about 31k) and so I am a failure.
Or maybe not. There was a lot of plotting done, and some scene outlines and little details figured out that had been bothering me for ages. More still needs to be ironed out (and a lot of characters need names) but it’s getting closer and I can’t find fault in that.
Instead of writing, I’ve been reading. To anyone who knows me that might not sound like a surprise (I was the kid with a new book every day at school and would glare if it was taken away) but I haven’t had much time to read lately. Or had the interest. Now I’m making up for it by reading the In Death series (yes, the whole series) by J. D. Robb and am enjoying it immensely. For inspiration for my novel, I read books by Tamora Pierce (all of them. I could read them forever) and Maria V. Snyder and Sarah J. Maas.
Watching Game of Thrones doesn’t hurt, either.
But for now, I’m going to be reading some detective fiction (set in the future!) for a bit to sort of switch gears in my head before I go back to the novel. Taking a break, and then diving in again later. I will get this done, it just might take a bit. I’m OK with that.
Sleepy Fox Writes 
Don’t beat yourself up too hard. That’s 30000 words that weren’t written last month. That still is an awful lot of story there.
Think of it this way.
You set off down the road figuring on getting somewhere. You didn’t get to where you intended to get to – but you did wind up somewhere further down the road.
Life is a journey. It is not a destination. Same thing about writing. You don’t REALLY want to have “written” so much as you want to be “writing”, right?
Poke at it. Play with it. You aren’t REALLY being marked on this.
🙂
I never was very good at getting things done in a timely fashion for school… 😛 Thanks!