Chronic Illness and NaNoWriMo: Still Having Fun

In this post, NaNoWriMo participant Jen offers her perspective on writing with chronic illness, and offers some words of encouragement!

Every writer gets writer’s block, headaches, blurry eyes, a lack of sleep, the list goes on. Now imagine all of that, but with pain everywhere, all the time, but sometimes better, sometimes worse, usually when it’s rainy or a cold front hits…

Welcome to writing life with a chronic pain disorder. They come with different names, multiple sclerosis, lupus, fibromyalgia, so many others. They have so many things in common, often the names are interchangeable with doctors, as tests come few and far between, with not always the best results.