Have you heard of it? Na-No-Wri-Mo. I heard about it from my Mom. It stands for National Novel Writing Month. So the idea is to set aside a month - this month, November - to write, write, write, with the idea of working toward writing a novel.
I don't know... I love to write... I think I'm pretty good at it... I've even contemplated writing a book before (it was going to be about my first year as a teacher - what an insane year that was!)... but the task of writing a novel sounds a bit daunting. And yet, I keep thinking about joining the thousands (millions?) of people doing this. I think what's holding me back might be that I just don't know what to write about. I know, you should write about what you know. It's just that I know so much that I couldn't possibly choose where to start. LOL! Just kidding!
So, one of my thoughts was that since I really do want to write, but am not sure I'm serious enough about it to do NaNoWriMo, maybe I could at least blog every day. That would be a good start, right? Oh, and the goal for NaNoWriMo is to write 1,667 words per day, for a total of 50,000 for the month - I think that's right. I don't really know right off hand how much that is, but I'm just going to write, and if I get close to that, great! If not, hey, at least I'm writing. Who knows where it'll lead.
I guess this is my first blog, then, for NaNoWriMo. I'd love to have you check back throughout the month and see how I'm doing, what I'm writing, and of course give me feedback.
Bye for now...
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4 comments:
Very exciting! Can't wait to see how it turns out! -S
Wow... writing every day.. Sounds like fun... But you have to find a subject that turns your crank every day... Maybe once you get started it will be much easier... We'll keep checking...
Gale :)
I'm watching with baited breath! LOL
I think that's great, Amber. Journaling or blogging is always a great place to start. Sometimes I journal a bit before I start writing just to get things going. One thing they always said in my writing classes was to write what you don't know about what you know (whatever that means). Anyway, way to keep in the spirit of things!
Mom
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