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Sunday Review: I feel like I am coming out of a fog

The September 22, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  is
Blog. Tell us about your week. Include your favorite blog entry from your fellow challengers from the preceding week and, most importantly, why.

I think my week went as well as can be expected under the circumstances and it may have went better then I think it did. I did some port housekeeping by cleaning and I set up the folder "NaNoWriMo 2020"  and the book "Invalid Item" . Since I have no idea what I'm going to call the novel, I haven't started the book for that yet. This year I have to beat my last year's word count of 47,971. I still have that novel to finish, but I think I want to work on a different novel this year.

I feel as if I am coming out of a fog. I looked at my word count for last year and wondered why I did not complete the novel. Then it hit me, Mom died on November 29, 2012 and that was why I did not finish "The Typewriter" . It took me about five minutes to realize that on September 29 Mom will have been dead ten months. I feel as if I woke up from a dream and found myself on another planet or in another country, which may not be a bad plot for a novel. At this moment, I am wondering if I should change the genre of the upcoming novel and use my experience taking care of Mom as the premise. Is it too soon after her death to consider writing a novel about it? I wonder.

I have eight days to decide on the premise of the novel. In eight days, the "October Novel Prep Challenge"  begins. I should have some idea of the premise before October 1. This is the first time I have considered writing about the experience of a caregiver. I have been racking my brain for a plot and a story title. Maybe writing a novel about care-giving would be good therapy. Maybe it would be a good way to remember Mama. Maybe it would... I can come up with all sorts of maybes, but maybes do not make decisions. The only thing maybes can do is confuse the issue and cause me to postpone deciding on a novel premise and plot.

Some of the interesting and creative entries for this week are
"Invalid Entry"  by Shaye - The fifteen minute exercise sounds like something that could help me decide on my NaNoWriMo novel.
"Invalid Entry"  by Brother Nature - Creative and amusing.
"Invalid Entry"  by ANN Counselor, Lesbian & Happy - Inspiring.
"My Long Lost Bike"  by abcoachnz-Sometimes around - Liked the bike entry.
" 15 About my week! +Favourite Blog and why?"  by Alexi - Good poem.