Fortunately, NaNoWriMo is breaking up this uncomfortable cycle that seems to have set in over the course of October...
I feel like this speaks to something in me that no one else has pinpointed. I feel myself drifting from old friends who aren’t trying to chase the big dreams they had, back when I was just dreaming of being a novelist too. We all started out dreamers, some of us are succeeding, some are still getting our preliminary failures out of the way, but the friends I had who are just plugging along and letting their dreams fall to the wayside...that does seem like a crime.