POV: you're a friend I haven't seen in a while and I write you to tell you how my first NaNoWriMo went

 

Dear friend:

    I have read your last letter and would like to tell you how glad it makes me that you enjoyed last NaNoWriMo, and that you achieved your goal. Congratulations! In my case, this NaNoWriMo (my first one, as you may know) was a little different than expected...

    My original goal was of 13.000 words, and I was not even going to write a novel, but some short novels, stories and maybe a few poems, instead. After all, I knew this November would be rather complicated as I was preparing for my C2 exam and still had a few tests at school, and thus my expectations were not high.

    Nevertheless, and to my surprise, I even had to reduce my original goal to the half! So, after having barely finished a few short projects, and started more than I could keep track of, I finished NaNoWriMo at November 27th, with nothing more than seven thousand five hundred and two words, and no actual novel whatsoever. For this particular reason, I feel a bit disappointed, almost as though I cheated.

    Well, now that I think of it, I might not have told you why I decided not to write a novel: after my last attempt in July, which you may remember, I felt completely discouraged from writing novels because my first draft turned out to be a mess I did not know how to solve. This you were not informed of because I could not tell anyone how confused I was, and how lost I felt in terms of this project. I know you will understand, though.

    But, on the whole, that was it. This month, I may pick up some of these projects to keep working on, and I will tell you about it this time!

    I hope we can see each other once we are both done with our responsibilies, and I'm looking forward to your reply.

With love,

Amparo.

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