NaNoWriMo

We are inching towards November 1st.  It’s a fact, not a theory.  Where has this year gone?  I don’t know, but it has sure been interesting.  I know three people who were all fired this year.  Of course, I know three people who are much better off, but there were three separate nervous breakdowns first.  But the above was not the point of this post.  There is a point to every one of my posts, I just meander a bit before I get there.

November 1st kicks off NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth (called NaNoWriMo for the uninitiated).  There is a web site for this don’t you know.  http://www.nanowrimo.org/.  Last year the Quills all signed up to participate, but we each petered out at the end.  Some of us did much better than others – I remember Ava got a bunch done.  The point of NaNoWriMo is that you and a gazillion other people around the world all agree to try to write a 50,000 word novel in a month.  There are write-ins and incentives and pep talks.  It’s all very amusing and worthwhile when you’re trying to jump start a new project.

Isabella and I have agreed to participate this year.  We’ll try to coax Ava into it also, but she rolled her eyes at me when I told her I was going to start a new project.  As you may remember, I’m still doing rewrites on my 1st novel and there is a deadline, as I will be pitching it to an agent in November.  She forgets that my brain is always going and I need to keep it writing or bad things happen. 

Stay tuned – I’m sure that we’ll keep you all posted on our progress and various existential crises.