Forget about the numbers.

Wow. What a weird thing to say smack-dab in the middle of NaNoWriMo. Because that’s all about the numbers, the word counts, how many words you can crank out every minute, hour, and day.

Writers like to keep track of their progress in numbers. How many pages, words, books you’ve written and haven’t written. How many days you have left to finish this project before a deadline.

I’m going to ask you to do something crazy, just for a moment. Forget about the numbers…