Nov 01 2008
It’s National Novel Writing Month
There won’t be many, if any posts made to this blog in the month of November,as I’m participating in National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo, as it’s also known.) The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write novel (a novel by this definition is at least 50,000 words) in the month of November.
It doesn’t need to be a good novel. In fact, to keep up that word count, it probably won’t be. It only needs to be a 50,000 word first draft. Editing is for December, as they say. There is a wonderfully fun, supportive online community for this huge event at http://nanawrimo.org and there are even local events, and write-ins held all over during the corse of the month.
My kids are way too young to participate or enjoy this kind of event, but I love it, and there are many young writers who participate. If you have a middle or high school aged child (or a really ambitious, younger kid) who loves to write, send to the NaNoWriMo site to check it out. It’s a great experience for anyone who ever thought about someday wanting to try writing a novel.
Hope you’re doing great so far. I’m moving along, slowly.