personal: And they're off!
Once a year, for a month, I become absolutely, and almost certifiably, insane. What's that you say? I always am?
Yeah, probably.
But what's up in the month of November is National Novel Writing Month. This is my third year participating, though last year I didn't quite make it to the finish line because I was (shock, horror) working full time finishing the last semester of my master's program. And I was working full time. And my schooling necessitated a once-a-week evening commute to Tucson and back (a two-hour drive each way). And I'm in a band that wanted to rehearse occasionally. And, well, you get the idea.
I suppose my larger point is that I've always considered myself to be a writer but, like so many others, I always have an excuse not to do it. And if you've ever thought about writing a book but haven't done it, you've had your excuses too. It never hits the top of the priority list.
Nanowrimo is about abandoning the excuses and just doing it. It doesn't have to be good. It doesn't have to flow. It doesn't even have to make sense. It just has to be fiction and the goal is to hit the 50,000-word mark by midnight Nov. 30. Knowing my life in the last year or two, I'm pretty sure politics will enter in somewhere, but I'll be honest ... I'm about a page into it so far and I have absolutely no idea what I'm writing about. And that's OK.
Join me, won't you? And if you can't or don't, bear with me if I don't answer e-mails or disappear for days at a time. I'm writing my Great American Novel, even if it falls far short of the Platonic ideal of such a beast.
Oh, and I'll be having fun doing it.
Yeah, probably.
But what's up in the month of November is National Novel Writing Month. This is my third year participating, though last year I didn't quite make it to the finish line because I was (shock, horror) working full time finishing the last semester of my master's program. And I was working full time. And my schooling necessitated a once-a-week evening commute to Tucson and back (a two-hour drive each way). And I'm in a band that wanted to rehearse occasionally. And, well, you get the idea.
I suppose my larger point is that I've always considered myself to be a writer but, like so many others, I always have an excuse not to do it. And if you've ever thought about writing a book but haven't done it, you've had your excuses too. It never hits the top of the priority list.
Nanowrimo is about abandoning the excuses and just doing it. It doesn't have to be good. It doesn't have to flow. It doesn't even have to make sense. It just has to be fiction and the goal is to hit the 50,000-word mark by midnight Nov. 30. Knowing my life in the last year or two, I'm pretty sure politics will enter in somewhere, but I'll be honest ... I'm about a page into it so far and I have absolutely no idea what I'm writing about. And that's OK.
Join me, won't you? And if you can't or don't, bear with me if I don't answer e-mails or disappear for days at a time. I'm writing my Great American Novel, even if it falls far short of the Platonic ideal of such a beast.
Oh, and I'll be having fun doing it.
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