NaNoWriMo
It’s that time again! National Novel Writing Month is upon us, well, in November it shall be upon us, and I’m super excited to get this party started! Is it bad that my idea of partying is to write 50,000 words in a month? Ah well, I never professed to being cool…
Anyway, I’m gearing up for this year’s event. I have my pencils sharpened, my composition notebooks neatly lined up on the corner of my utterly clean desk, and….ha! who am I kidding? I’m a writer! I’ll be lucky if I change out of my pajamas before lunch while I’m working on a writing project.
This year I decided to be a more active participant and went to my library director in hopes of having our library as a writing site for all NaNoWriMo participants in the area. She was totally on board and quickly wrangled a representative from Adult and Youth Services to help helm the project. So I went ahead and ordered our press kit from the NaNoWriMo site so we will have signs, bookmarks and promotional stuff to advertise the event. Plus, we’re hosting a writer’s workshop, raffles, reserved tables with lots o’ outlets, and other goodies. 😀 I’m so excited!!!
Now that I’ve jammered on you’re probably saying, “Well, that’s super great, but what is NaNoWriMo?”
Good question. National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo is a national (global?) event where participants register on the NaNoWriMo website to register and keep track of their progress as they work towards writing 50,000 words in a month. There are forums, chats, and other cool resources also available as well as groups in general regions (central NJ for me) where writers can convene for events in person. It’s a way where writers can connect, vent, discuss, network, and bang out a novel with a word goal instead of over analyzing every turn of phrase and grammar choice for hours only to find they haven’t written an entire paragraph yet. Sounds good to me!
Happy writing!
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This is at least 30 flavors of awesome! I’ll be there with bells on.
Awesome! Can’t wait! 🙂
Sounds like fun! Although, I don’t think I can ever handle that one month deadline! Good luck!
I’m working on a list of book blogging NaNoWriMo participants and linked to this post! Do you know of any other book bloggers who do NaNoWriMo? Thanks!
Thanks for linking to my blog. 🙂 I don’t know of any other book bloggers who participate in NaNoWriMo, but if I find any I’ll be sure to let you know.