NaNoWriMo – November 1, 2016
Who out there knows what this is? If you don’t are you curious? Is it a name for a grandma? Is it an expression from a new character on earth (similar to Mork from Ork — Nano Nano). Is it the worst possible name to give to your brand new puppy? How about your new kitty? It stands for something, but if you’ve never seen it, then you might come up with all sorts of other balderdash meanings.
NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it happens to last the entire month of November. Sometimes, I mistakenly substitute “November” for “Novel,” but it’s all good as long as you string together 50,000 words in a month: 11/1-11/30.
This activity, contest, and writing incentive stretches beyond our nation and inspires people of all origins and nationalities. It would just be weird to call it InNoWriMo after all these years (International November Novel Writing Month). You can write in the language you feel most comfortable. Hell, you can use OP talk if you want, but that would be really difficult and you would not entice a very large audience (See it here: http://www.wikihow.com/Speak-Oppish)
In a Nano Nutshell, the goal is to write the rough draft of a story using 50,000 words. That’s a decent length (understatement for this 500 a word day gal) to cover in a month. I wonder if there is a half marathon or 10k for this race. Phew, I might be able to pull that off more than a full event…
Ahhhh! Look at me already giving myself the boot, like I’m ready to kick my fingertips off of this endeavor. I’m busy though!
Wah! All of us are busy. That’s why we need things like NaNoWriMo to push us. I think I can. I know I can. I know you can. I know we can. OK. Let’s chug along. It doesn’t have to be perfect (not even close).
To get down 50,000 words would take a lot of drafting and gobbledygook from me, so I am willing to cut it in half or even half of that (I don’t do math, so who knows what the hell I just didn’t commit to). Anyhow, I am promising to write something brand new each day for at least thirty minutes. My participation will be to show up each day and add new words that hopefully make some sense and contribute to my plot/s.
I vow not to revise what I slap on the screen until NaNoWriMo is over. Perhaps I will mine some diamonds when I go back and edit and revise.I think that is a good plan for now.
With that said, I better wrap up this blog so that I can start building my novel. Ahh, nuts! It’s already 10:16 pm and my bedtime is 10:01.
Maybe tomorrow…
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