This year I am finally going to be taking part in NaNoWriMo instead of just watching from the sidelines. For those who don’t know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. November of every year since the event began in 1999, tends of thousands of people around the world participate in writing a novel from start to finish within a time limit of 30 days.
An average novel has about 50,000 words so NaNoWriMo participants need to reach a daily word count of 1,666 to finish on time. Needless to say, I’m going to spend more time working on my novel than writing blog posts this month, so posts will be few and far between (if they happen at all).
I’m super excited about participating this year. I’ve been playing with an idea for a story for quite some time now and now I finally get to put it to paper and see what happens. Here’s a shout-out to all my students who kept telling me to stop talking about it and just participate already every time November rolled around and I spread the word about NaNoWriMo goodness :).
5 comments:
YAY!!!!! It'll be grueling but you can make it :D this is like running in a marathon, good luck girlfriend!
Amanda from Oregon
Thank you! I'm trying my best! Life keeps getting in the way. But even if I only add 300 words a day, that's much more than I've been doing before.
What did I get myself into? :P LOL
Congratulations! I did this while I was on sabbatical last year. It was indeed grueling. I bow to anyone who does this with a family and/or a job! :-)
Sandra
sandramathews.wordpress.com
Wish you had "LIKE" buttons :-)
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