Soon enough I’ll be several states away and won’t be able to spend time with him and my family, so I spend a lot of time with them now. Truthfully, I don’t have a problem with writing every day, although I will be honest and tell you I’ve slacked a bit since the grandbaby arrived. It’s a good premise if you struggle to write consistently and you are motivated by this type of challenge. You don’t worry about revisions or editing. The basic premise is you write every day. I also know people use the concept if not the actual website to write other things – non-fiction books, website content and the like. That’s how you create a new habit – or quit a bad one.) (Of course, there are good things about doing something for 30 days in a row. Instead, I’ll write when I can and use the challenge to keep it top of mind for me. So I’m not going to bust my butt over it and get all stressed out. I’ll have some travel days and probably a few days when I just can’t squeeze in a couple of hours of writing. I figured at the end of 30 days, I’d have 60,000 words written, and I’d be well on toward wrapping it up.īut I also know I won’t be able to write every day. No, I recalled hearing about the project and so started on my own with my own goal to write 2,000 words a day on my novel. I don’t want or need the encouragement, the pep talks from famous authors, the endless emails I’d receive. Thousands of people compete in the challenge each November with the goal of writing at least 50,000 words – or finishing a novel.Īccording to the NaNoWriMo website, nearly 800,000 active novelists are registered and almost 368,000 novels have been written. It started as a challenge among a group of writer friends in 1999 that since has become a nonprofit organization, according to an article on. And for the first time, I’m doing the challenge, but of course, I’m doing it a little differently. It’s NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month.
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