NaNo and Family

I am particularly blessed because my family not only understands my need to write, they enthusiastically join me. Since I’m by far the most experienced in the field, our in-house word wars have hardly been fair. I generally take a handicap of a couple hundred.

This hasn’t exactly sat well with either Mr. Al or The Girl. Even when they would win if we counted the handicap, they weren’t satisfied. They both wanted to out-write me straight out.

This year, they are both succeeding. It’s not because I’m writing any slower than I have before. I can still whip out six or seven hundred words in fifteen minutes. The changes is that now both of them can also whip out that many words.

So I’m doing better than normal, but still lagging. I’m not quite sure how I feel about that.