Naleighna Kai's Literary Cafe Magazine November Edition | Page 17

not in the right mood, or you don’t have the capacity,
words are not going to flow properly.
What am I doing for NaNoWriMo? Well, let me tell
you!
I’m trying to use this gauntlet for a lot of reasons this
year. I have been dealing with getting my Beloved’s
health back on track, which has had me put all writing
projects on pause and reset my release schedule.
I am still in graduate school, earning my Master’s
degree, so that has had me split time between
that and trying to get my writing mojo back. Most
importantly, I need to get back into the day-to-day
discipline that it takes to write.
Look, there are no two ways about it. In order to do
what it takes to do what we do, and to get better
at doing it, you have to write daily. Even on days
when you don’t want to write. Even on days when
the cursor on the screen is flashing with such an
incessant frequency that it drives you mad when you
can’t get anything to flow. Just WRITE! Otherwise,
how else will you eventually master your craft?
So now that I’ve gotten that off my chest and I can
exhale a little bit and get back to the projects I need
to finish for NaNoWriMo; I’d like to end this in the
proper fashion. Happy Thanksgiving to you, happy
writing, and pretty soon we will all be singing the
time-honored lyrics, “It’s beginning to look a lot like
Christmas … everywhere we go!”
In Service to the Senator is the latest
explosive tale from best-selling author
Shakir Rashaan, where sometimes,
politics make the strangest of bedfellows—
and enemies.
Shakir Rashaan is the author of In Service to the Senator
and the national bestselling Nubian Underworld and Kink,
P.I. Series. He is also developing projects under the pen name
PK Rashaan. You can find out more about Rashaan at www.
ShakirRashaan.com.
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