Monday, October 29, 2007

Nanowrimo Or What To Do With My November

Nanowrimo is National Novel Writing Month. To quote from the site:

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.


It's all about the writing. For 30 days, you write whenever, wherever and whatever you can towards a 50,000 word novel. Yes, 50,000 in 30 days.

I'm going to make a go of it this year. This will be my first time and I'm looking forward to the challenge with anxiety and excitement. I know one other writer, a veteran of Nanowrimo. I'm hoping for daily encouragement from her and to do likewise.

This blog post is both to clue you in about Nanwirmo and to clue you in that I'm participating and would deeply appreciate support. If you know me, I gladly invite prayers, happy thoughts, well wishes, as well as Diet Pepsi, and various snacks. Feel free to provide any and all. Also welcome are blog posts and comments to encourage me along the way, and keep me honest.

Obviously asking for a cheering section out there. I'm making no promises but that I'll give it a try.

To close out this post, I challenge any and all of you to consider visiting Nanowrimo and give it a go.

3 thoughts:

Dwight's Writing Manifesto said...

OH SH!T!

Todd's going to write a novel!

You go, Dude. We're right behind you. If there is anything us grizzled litvets can do to help, let us know.

Make sure you do all the homework they suggest. You don't have much more time for the preliminaries.

As Rob Scheider say in all the Adam Sandler movies, "You can dew eeet!"

Melody said...

Good luck! What a cool project. I might take a stab at it too as a private venture, I have always wanted to do it so why the heck not now :) Keep me posted! I would love to hear about the trials and tribulations of undertaking such a task. It was great meeting you Friday btw!

Tojosan said...

Thank you both for your support. I'll be sure to look into that homework sir!

So nice of you to drop by also Dwight and Melody. Please keep an eye out for some updates.