Bless me friends for I have procrastinated, it has been
almost a year since my last blog post.
It is not a lack of things to post about that has led to
this huge gap but more a lack of putting fingers to keys and just typing out
the narrative that usually sounds so great in my head as I’m driving someplace.
Speaking of putting ideas into words - today is November 3,
2014 and NaNoWriMo 2014 is in day 3, and yep, I’ve signed up and started to
write a novel. Hopefully I’m not just taking my procrastination to a whole new
level, you know, by doing things like writing this blog post during my break at
work rather than actually writing words that count for ‘the story’.
If you are not familiar with NaNoWriMo, for 15 years now
November has been designated “National Novel Writing Month” and the goal is to
take that idea that has been rattling around in your head for days, weeks,
months, years – whatever, and put it down in words. The goal is 50,000 words and thousands of
people ‘win’ each year by finishing their work even though for most no one will
read it – at least they accomplished it.
That’s my goal. How many words
have I written so far? 264 and I need to up it to about 1800 a day to finish on
time so I will sign off here and get back to work so that during lunch I can
write the book rather than the blog.
If you are interested you can sign up for free and start
your novel as well – you’ve only ‘lost’ 2 days so grab your paper, ink, pen,
pencil, keyboard or whatever and go for it.
