NaNoWriMo started.

4 am
Yes, I managed to wake up and it is always good to do it without pain and with some time for me. I like to live my life in my own rhythm not being pushed and forced.

There is a strong wind outside the youngest has to get out of bed now. No way it can get at school safely. The bus-kid starts the car, I make an extra pot of tea to take with us on the way and we leave. The wind is a warm one which is good, could be good for the laundry for example if it wouldn't start to rain.

I woke up quite happy and yes I fell asleep a happier too. Although I cannot push myself in editing my #MarchMadness book I will join NaNoWriMo! I really feel happy about that and I already wrote 1021 words before I fell asleep. I will do it differently this time. I will not post everything here. I still don't know how and if Steemit changed the "ownership issue". @paulag wrote about some weeks ago but if they did it is still not a great idea to post a full story on Steem. No matter if people read it or not.

NaNoWriMo.

Let's join this "writing 50,000 words within a month (November 2019) idea of... No, not me but some writers who decided to encourage each other in writing a novel (or another book) in one month's time. @mariannewest started already, wrote two days, which means I am ahead of her. I loved reading both days and now I join too.
Fifty thousand words mean two thousand words a day! That cannot be so hard for a Steemian using a desktop and who can type with ten fingers blind. I can by the way but I do not have a desktop nor laptop. I am a mobile user only and what I will use is one single finger to type. No not a thumb or even two but one finger.

I signed up at the NaNoWriMo site but didn't know what to do next.
Do I need a buddy? I don't think so although it would be fun to have one. We could give our 50,000 words a bit extra by responding to each other's books in our book (well it isn't a book yet but we can pretend it is. Publishing won't be easy if you are a foreigner and want to do so by amazon.com or do they only discriminate Dutch customers and make their life a hell?).

Long story short Who likes to join?
You can write about what you like. A story, your memoirs, a tale or bundle with short stories, who knows you write the next bestseller diary. Wouldnt that be great?

I know many of you are short in time but you could (easily) write it through the day. Just type down your thoughts, short stories, and anecdotes. You can use your entries to the freewrites and other contests. I think our fisherman @myjob, who is a lady and great storyteller, should join. All her stories are great to make a book out of it. @gertu could be a writer too. A book about plants, cooking, baking, surviving and @olivia08 could give it a chance too and they are not the only writers here.

I admit it is easier if you already published and can schedule your time but it is not said you can not write if your time or options are limited.
Steemit is a great place, can be a great place, no, it should be a great place for writers in the first place. Afterall Steemit is about writing. Writing good content and it makes me wonder why the writers are the underdog here. (Actually, I know the answer, the main reason is there are hardly any readers. The downvoters are not reading at all. They do not care about good or bad content. Many downvoters gave their vote to a community that downvotes in their name. How lazy can one be but also how serious can you take these Steemians and downvotes?).

Writers united!

Let us do something great this month, achieve something together. We all can show we are the ones carrying this platform, making it a better place. It is thanks to us there is food for the mind. @felixgarciap writes great posts. They might not count 2000 words but imagine if his poems, freewrites, entries to other writing contests are bundled what an amazing biography that would be.
So many here have potential. Why not use it?

This month (year) @freewritehouse will not organize a NaNoWriMo and I understand why. A contest like this is a lot of work. Still, you can join and set yourself goals. If you like to give it a try, start now and tell @mariannewest. Do not let 50,000 words stop you. If your book counts 25,000 words or 15,000 it is a book too. Keep in mind the writing is just for one month! You can write 2,000 words or 5,000 a day and take a day off but writing daily is the best way to stay focussed and motivated.

Tag me if you join and you can count on my support and who knows I have a nice surprise for you too.

By now it is *6:36 an" and I sit in my car killing time with the youngest. The bus-kid already left and we took tea with us. This is a nice way to be productive and write. Still, onehour'sr time to kill left. Let's see how many words I typed in 40 minutes time...

835 words it is and this is including rereading and correcting some words I mistyped plus I needed google translate to figure out how to write one word.

I thought about writing a follow up of the story I wrote before but to be honest I do not know where to start it. I wrote 1021 words of it and think I need to start at an earlier time. So what I am going to do is think out a bit first before I write it. Perhaps I will use a part of it or what I wrote shows up later. Later today or tomorrow. I hope to read more NaNoWriMo entries soon.

Only 1050 words so far and it is already 2:21 in twenty minutes I have to get back in the car, slip-sliding off the land road. My gas bottle is empty so I need a new one. Still had a full one but it is better to have one extra in case of need. The need, in this case, is the heater. It works on gas too and might be the reason why I collapsed lately too. To be honest, I don't think so. Me not feeling well from one moment to another without a warning is caused by... (If I knew the problem could be solved, I guess it is a combination of being exhausted since the day I am born, a lack of sleep since the same day and the fact I am dehydrated.)

I should call the doctor to make an appointment but like I said it is not possible to drive to the hospital if I don't feel well. It is at least a 45 minute drive. The doctor also said I had to be there at 8 am. I can never make it if my youngest needs to be at school at 7:45 and the school will not be open earlier. Only thinking about how to arrange this already made me nervous so I decided it is better not to call today.

I figured out I need to write about 134 lines in my notes to have 1000 words. I give it a try with my "Once upon a time" or another tale. Tales. No matter what kind, I like tales most of all stories. With or without history and the best are the ones that pull you right into it, a different place and time. Writing is not as easy as they say. It is way easier to comment (something no one does here so you are safe and can write whatever you like. Join, join, join!)

My daughter just sent me some photos of her cat Rohni sitting on her shoulder. I am happy I don't need to drag one of my wolves this way. The eldest would bite me, he always snaps at me if he is happy, his way of showing love. The others know it is not appreciated (not true the youngest still does it too) and he does not care. For some reason, he is always extremely happy.

Back to the "Once upon a time".
By now it is 5:18 pm and I did not really come to writing. Even if the kids make homework they keep talking, asking me. I have had those days of making homework plus I have 40% of the time no idea what they are talking about. How come kids always think you did every school, every education and have all answers? It is a fact I always went to school, mainly because it was a hundred times better as at home (better not ask what kind of schools and teachers I had. Would they still be alive? Still are that mean and discriminating, beating up children?).
They probably say it never happened or they cannot remember they did. That is what all bullies say "You made it up", " I cannot remember it".

A "good" one I once heard.
A bully said to her victim (still suffering from it 20 years later!) after denying it for 20 minutes (it was on a Dutch tv-show named "the Reunion" or perhaps "bullies" all those programs are the same.): "You might be happy and feel better to hear my daughter is bullied too."

Why should a victim be happy if a kid is bullied? That woman plus her two close friend (bullies too) made a fine trio. What a stupid cows I still see them sit there. A lower specie as these three cannot exist.
Even as the teacher said he remembered their nasty behavior very well it did not impress them.

@mariannewest wrote on her day 3 of #nanowrimo about her father, the war (second world war for those who didn't read it yet!).
I lived for a while with a German general. He fought in World War 1 and World War 2. Imagine your whole life is war. It is your job to kill and survive. He survived or that was left off him. I loved that man. He lived in a huge house and was a human. We never really talked about the war but it was present daily. He missed some parts of his body, had a letter signed by Hitler and his most loyal friend was his boot servant. Who has a Batman/boot servant these days? The man was at his side during the war but also as he became seriously ill and... died.
We talked a lot, the general and I. Mainly about life, love. He lost the love of his life and said "You can only love one for real". I hope his second wife, 25 years younger and the nanny first, never heard that. She was a very sweet lady and my friend. I was also befriended with the general's youngest son. He and his wife (she made the best cheese pie I ever ate) lived in a part of the same house too.
Looking back it was a strange situation. The son hated his father, the father missed his eldest and wife and grieved and did not let the youngest come close but it did not infect me. I got along with all of them although it was not one big, happy family. They all had their share of sadness, probably hated, a lack of love and self esteem and tried to make the best out of it.
It is not only war that changes a person. Love does, a big lost does. In all these cases you loose a part of yourself. You can go on, keep pretending but it will never be the same.
The general felt an alien. He never really lived a normal life. The love of his life died after the youngest was born, the children were sent to... The eldest killed himself at the age of 18 on a motorcycle.
The "good" boy dies is killed by... and the "bad" boy who killed his mother by being born lives. It makes you wonder.

By now both are dead, buried and probably forgotten by most people. That is what we do with common people who did nothing special for the society. It is also what we do with heroes. In ten or twenty years' time all heroes are forgotten. It is no longer important what they thought, fought for. Time changes and so does our opinion about history and good and bad. The EU wants us to share one history, one background. Kallergi made a plan and the EU is using it and admitting it. This plan was made long before Hitler ruled. It is about genocide, hating Jews, wiping out the history of each country, forcing women to get children from another race.

It is wrong to be proud of your country... that is what kids learn these days plus that we are guilty of everything that is wrong in this world.
If you ask me... better not ask me, better not follow the news or the newest hypes.

It is good to be old fashioned.
By now I believe I can truly say that. Hurray I am old. It is a pity no one respects elderly people these days. Elderly people do not stand for wisdom. They are labelled as sick and sick people cost money. I doubt our elderly, sick people do. It is the last generation with savings, each month they pay a high amount to their health insurance (about 140 euro or more and the first 350 euro they have to pay themselves first so they are afraid to visit a doctor and share the pills they have with their family snd friends.), they pay taxes and give to 1001 aid organizations and the church without getting anything back.

"Once upon... A life Tale".
This one is about Fighter or The Fighter. His life was mainly filled with war too. It was his free choice. Fighting for... who knows what he fighted for. We never know since he died at a young age...

Have you heard the story about a girl with dreams and hopes? She did not achieve what she expected. Her father gave her away. She was welcomed with a bucket of water, had to marry a dwarf and even get his child. A child that turned out to be a cruel monster.

It all was a long time.
At a time a dwarf fell in love with a giant's daughter. He worked so hard and got what he wanted. It was just not what he expected.

Perhaps you heard about a mysterious child?
As a firstborn, she was used to seeking and getting attention. To get what she wishes for. She missed what most have of us have. A heart. No matter how hard they all searched the heart was never found.

And how about the story of a child in a land far, far away?
A child that kept a baby alive during a Fight. He did not gave up. As the Fight ended both traveled the seas and started a new life in the land of the Not Loved Ones

Aliens.

For sure you know they do not come out of space.
The child, taking care of a baby, had a father. This alien was a fighter. It has always been his boy's dream to be one. It was a good way to see the world too. He hated working for his father's trading company. As soon as he could he joined a group of warriors. The warriors did not care about aliens or different looks. They had one goal: killing and surviving.
On rare occasions, Fighter visited the aliens and at times he told about his adventures. Many disagreed with his life. Living in peace was what they wished for.
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I wrote more, much more...

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Day one of NaNoWriMo