Diary of Being A Writer; Week 40

Sometimes you need to go and look at your pond.

There are frogs too.

Monday 3rd of December

NaNoWriMo is over, and I didn’t win. Which is okay. I tried, and I learnt a lot about writing. About how I write and how I like to write. Would I do it again? Maybe.
Now it is time for me to look at all the things I have started and start working on finishing some of them. Completing sounds like a better word for what I want to do. Either way, it is back to the memoir for rewrites and edits and then some mentoring when it is in a presentable state.
I will continue to think about and write the other bits and pieces I started during the last month, they may need some ripping down and building up again, but they don’t need to be scrapped entirely.
Reading my new friend’s memoir this week is an interesting experience. I am getting to know and like her more by reading her words. It feels like I am getting a cheat sheet, knowledge of a person that should be earned over time is being gained in mere moments.
Her writing style has also shown me that generous descriptions, when done well, can be genuinely evocative and engender a real sense of place or moment without sounding like the writer is just flexing their ability to wrangle the language in pretty ways. I am always worried that my descriptions will be too flowery or just too, too! She manages to describe things…