We are now halfway through the month of November, which means Nanowrimo is halfway over with. This is the first time I’ve been this far ahead and it’s a nice change for me. As of this writing, I’m sitting at 36,583 words and par is 26,672. I’m almost 10k words ahead with a six day buffer.

The story hasn’t been easy to write. In fact, the first half is a complete disaster. It’ll require a complete rewrite when I’m through, but that can wait. I gave up and stated the second part of the story, and it’s flowing a little bit easier.

To give a quick summary of the book, my main character was kicked out of her house when she came out as trans by her homo/transphobic father. Part one follows my main character (M.C.) as she tries to grapple with what it means to be trans, and the…