NaNoWriMo
The Difficulty in Writing!
Friday, February 12 , 2010
If anyone has looked at this, he or she can clearly
see that it’s been nearly two years since I made my
last entry—and that was the second of only two! Sad,
but not uncommon. Some writers can’t help but write;
others will do anything to not write! I’ve known some
to actually clean the house instead. That’s not me,
but I manage to avoid it in other ways.
However, I didn’t totally avoid writing. That would be impossible. I’ve written emails, birthday cards, filled out forms, the basics. But I also wrote a novel as part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I was determined to do it this year—and I did. NaNoWriMo is an ever-enlarging program in which people, anyone, writes a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. It started just over 11 years ago among 25 or so friends in July and has grown and grown. There are many local groups, many of which have “write-ins” and support their members both during and after November. In fact, it’s now international. And everyone who writes at least 50,000 words in those 30 days is a winner. It doesn’t matter how little sense those words make or how many of them are crossed out; they’ve been written, they count, and you win. There’s still the small matter of rereading it, deciding if it’s worth revising, revising, and getting it published—that should take you the rest of the year! Because mine adds onto a series created by someone else, I need permission to try to publish is. That’s okay, the important thing is that I did it. And it’s pretty good, too!
This is all to say that I hope to find my list of jotted-down blog topics and pursue some of them here, and I hope that some of you will read them. Maybe I’ll even figure out a way for people to leave comments (thought I’m not it’s possible with my pagemaking program; sorry).
However, I didn’t totally avoid writing. That would be impossible. I’ve written emails, birthday cards, filled out forms, the basics. But I also wrote a novel as part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I was determined to do it this year—and I did. NaNoWriMo is an ever-enlarging program in which people, anyone, writes a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. It started just over 11 years ago among 25 or so friends in July and has grown and grown. There are many local groups, many of which have “write-ins” and support their members both during and after November. In fact, it’s now international. And everyone who writes at least 50,000 words in those 30 days is a winner. It doesn’t matter how little sense those words make or how many of them are crossed out; they’ve been written, they count, and you win. There’s still the small matter of rereading it, deciding if it’s worth revising, revising, and getting it published—that should take you the rest of the year! Because mine adds onto a series created by someone else, I need permission to try to publish is. That’s okay, the important thing is that I did it. And it’s pretty good, too!
This is all to say that I hope to find my list of jotted-down blog topics and pursue some of them here, and I hope that some of you will read them. Maybe I’ll even figure out a way for people to leave comments (thought I’m not it’s possible with my pagemaking program; sorry).
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