National Novel Writing Month

On the first of November, I will begin writing as part of National Novel Writing Month.  My goal is 50,000 words!  Last March, someone invaded our home, and stole two laptops...mine and my daughter's.  All my writing was on my Asus laptop.  I hadn't the foresight to back it up on disc.  So my stories are long gone.  My novella of a mother who leaves husband and daughter for warmer climates.  She meets some interesting new people and reads books on DVD to make some money.  Eventually husband and daughter come visit  her, and after a while she returns home to a find yellow ribbons on every silver maple in her yard!  I started writing a novel of a total totalitarian anti-feminist government, but my main character was stymied at every turn.   Perhaps the thief figured out how to get the main character out of her predicament!  One year, when spring began to tease with sunshine but still-nippy, weather, I wrote the poem "The Sun."  It was a poem of hope--that spring would warm the coldness that I felt deep within my soul.  I grieved for my lost writing but was encouraged when my daughter spoke up.  "You write so fast, you will have new stories in no time."   I look forward to November 1st, the official first day of legal writing!  Let the writing begin!