As some of you may know, I’m currently working the equivalent of two jobs. By day, I’m a full time Flash trainer for LearnFlash.com, and by night I’m a freelance web designer. So, as you can imagine, I tend to stay pretty busy, especially now that my freelance business is starting to pick up. In fact, I’m busier now than I’ve been at any other point in my life.
So there couldn’t be any worse time for me to stack something else on top of my plate, but that’s exactly what I’m going to do in the month of November. As many wannabe writers know, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). In November, psychotic writers all over the globe commit to writing 50,000 pages in only 30 days. (Why couldn’t they have picked a month with 31 days??) That amounts to over 1600 words PER DAY!
NaNoWriMo encourages writers everywhere to stop making excuses and start writing! It also encourages you to ignore your “inner critic” for 30 days and avoid doing any editing at all cost! After all, editing is what draft #2 is for! Will NaNoWriMo result in a literary masterpiece? Probably not! But it will get you started in the right direction.
So if you need a boost, check out nanowrimo.com and join the masses of writers who have decided to stop making excuses. The website has a great community forums section, where you can keep up with other writers who are taking the challenge. The forums are a great source of motivation for everyone crazy enough to put themselves through the ordeal!
So go sign up today and look me up! My user name is craigsoup.
Maryanne Raphael
on Sep 20th, 2008
@ 1:02 pm:
Enjoyed reading your entry. Although I have used my Word Processor for years I have trouble with anything on the computer. Everytime I try to return to a site I get lost. Years ago I was in the 3 day novel contest and I wrote a novel in three days. Many people think it is the best writing I ever did. I pubiished it under the title The Man Who Loved Funerals. The last book I wrote took me ten years so I signed up for the November one month writing project hoping to speed myself up again. Maryanne Raphael