nanowrimo

monday
01 november.

today marks day number one of NANOWRIMO (national novel writing month). an insane undertaking for those who are not familiar with it: the premise being that you write 50,000 words of a novel during the month of november.

i hadn't heard of this venture until brittany mentioned it was one of her life goals awhile back. sounding like an interesting thing to support doing, she encouraged me to partake as well. she's been planning her novel for a bit while job searching (sidenote: yay, today she officially was offered a job) this past month. we even tried to go to some of the events, but that hasn't quite worked out yet (we'll try going this week maybe). anywho, so i've decided that my participation in this nanowrimo business if i were to write would to be to do something related to my experience teaching.

enough people along the way talk about writing about the specialness that was, so i thought maybe. while not fully the idea behind NANOWRIMO (it's not really a memoir/biography/recollection kind of thing), they also express that if a participant feels like what they're writing is a novel, then they too will consider it a novel. i think the broader point is to be writing...with that insane goal of hitting 50,000 words in 30 days.

so i wrote like 1,500 this morning before being called in to help out at work. brittany wrote like 1800 today which is great since she did the math to discover that breaking down 50000 into 30 days is 1667 or something like that. that's a lot. dissertationing was to hit 20000 and not necessarily in only one month. but dissertationing was not making up a story - although mine's not fiction - so we'll see. school's gonna win out, so we'll see. (i suppose this here blog could get attention to reach 50000 but that's different. hmm. i'll have to rethink my method of participation...