I’m about 11 days late in announcing this but here it goes. I am a participant in the 2007 National Novel Writing Month or NANO WRIMO. For the month of November, whoever (in their right or wrong mind) chooses can participate in writing a novel from scratch. In this case, a novel is defined as 50,000 words. Some who have participated in the past (since 1999) have set their sights this year at 60,000.
Well, today should have been the 20,000 word mark. I, however, have only written 1900 words. The only thing I have going for me is that when I have found or taken time to write toward this goal this month, my writing rate is pretty high. We’ll see how I’ve done on November 30th at 23:59!
Check it out at NaNo Wrimo!
This is a very ambitious project. Good luck.
Write from the heart and you’ll do fine regardless of whether you hit 50,000 words or not.
Thanks. Good advice. Will do.
approximately 3400 words.
Go! Go! Go! You can do it! What is the subject?
I am not sure of the subject or topic yet. You are supposed to start from scratch, i.e., you are not to bring any prior thoughts to the effort. Therefore, back on 11/11, I started writing about Johnny and Janice, a married couple, now separated over one of the highest reasons for such separations and/or divorces, troublesome finances. So far Janice has left without a shred of evidence to where she has gone and Johnny, 3 months down the road, is homeless and without a car, because Janice’s paycheck was covering both debts. Johnny miraculously still has a job where he works for Oscar who, come to find out, is in up to his eyeballs in loan shark debt.
My goal is to make the 50,000 words (not by the end of November like the NaNo WriMo rules state) but by December 11th. And more importantly, somehow glorify God in the process.
So we’ll see what comes of that. I will say that being a husband and a father minimizes the amount of free time one has… but all for the better.
Well, needless to say that the important things of my life crowded out this effort. No harm, no foul.
Oh, well, maybe next time
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