There is nothing fun about that word. You want to know how to nail the concept down? Promise a child you’ll do NaNoWriMo with them. 😉
Kate, my niece, lives a few states away. I don’t know her nearly as well as I’d like to, but we have the BEST common interest…BOOKS! Reading them. Writing them. Smelling them. Well, I don’t know if she loves the smell of books like I do. That’s an assumption. I’ll have to ask her.
Back to NaNoWriMo. I’m a list person, and let me tell you, I could write a doozy of a list of reasons this is NOT the month to write a novel:
- We just moved to a new house in a new city. There are boxes everywhere.
- I’ve been fighting a head and chest cold for the past two weeks. *sniff*
- I have three jobs
- and two busy teenagers
- and an adult child who may never leave home
and a husband who buys me mugs that say, “Write Epic Shit” on them.(Okay, that’s actually one for the “Pro” column.)- and my novel has been shelved for several years
- and whinewhinewhinewhinewhinewhinewhine
But there is a twelve year old girl in Wisconsin counting on me to keep my word. I won’t let her down. I won’t let myself off the hook. And I really do love writing. Well, I love having written. If I’m going to reach my goals and dreams, I need to start somewhere.
Today is Day 1! It’s time to begin again! If you would like to join me in my quest to pound out a 50,000 word novel in thirty days, click on the link below to sign up for NaNoWriMo. If your list of reasons not to do it is anything like mine, ignore it. Find an accountability partner, and put your butt in a chair and your fingers on the keys. You can do it! I believe in you!
For the 17 and under crowd, join Kate in NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program: https://ywp.nanowrimo.org/
Happy Writing! 🙂
Sometimes I Write 
Questions? Comments? Rebuttals?