November: National Novel Writing Month

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:00:30 +0000

For a national writing month, NanoWriMo sure is getting a lot of attention this year. Living in a cave (I mean, office) most of my adult life, this is the first year that I’d heard about it. But the ongoing news updates on the site announced on October 27th, with just four days to go before kickoff, visits to the site were hitting the big time: United States 673,795, UK 83,107 and even down to 256 Croatians who are up for being the next Vladimir Nazor or Dubravka Ugrešić.

I think it is entirely possible that I will not write 50,000 words this month. Probable, even. But I do intend to keep both of my blogs happily updated and to learn to categorize my own epic creations. I can think of no better challenge to better myself and my own organizational skills than to do this, and it will certainly be interesting to see how many words I actually produce, even if it’s not within the perimeters of NaNoWiMo’s rules and regs.

Along with over two thousand Singaporeans and 612 Argentinians, I’m logging in and checking it out. Who knows, maybe one year I will write that novel. Just not this year.

Angela L. Das » copywriting

November: National Novel Writing Month