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It’s Almost NaNo Season
What‘s Your NaNoPlan-o?
A couple of days ago, it hit me out of the blue. “It’s almost winter.”
As a Southern California native living in Western Pennsylvania, this is a moment of dread. Very soon, the skies that are only mostly cloudy and stormy are going to become completely cloudy and storm, and the entire world will become grey.
Seriously. I went without seeing blue sky — from when we were driving through Wyoming on our drive here in Early November, until, oh, June, maybe?
We went months and months and months without any breaks in the miserably bleak cloud cover. As someone who had spent most of their life in a region where “Winter” is one or two bad weeks in December or January, it was certainly a change.
The kind of change where I sit holed up in the house for six months, because it looks like the world is ending.
I can’t imagine what kind of nightmare that would have been if I’d had a real job. One that required me to brave the elements, de-ice the car, and drive through the bleak midnight darkness that settles down around 4 PM.
Thankfully, I’m a writer. And that kind of behavior is expected from us.
And, if winter is coming, that means NaNoWriMo is coming, too.
