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Family Day
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I Am Still Alive
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Nanowrimo in May
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Since people on Deviantart are well, artsy, I have no doubt a lot of you have heard of Nanowrimo. National Novel Writing Month. This event was started in the early 2000's as a way for people to support each other in their novel writing efforts. I mean, who hasn't wanted to write a novel at some point in their life, right?
So a website was started in an effort to get people to join the literary cause. Goals were set up. The point of the whole thing is to write 50,000 words in one month. November is the official Nanowrimo month, so that gives 31 days. That's a lot of words.
I have attempted this many times since I've always wanted to write a book. However, I seem to have a wee bit of a problem finishing my novels. So when the writing bug hit late April, I decided to seize the carp and get working on my novel. So far, so good. I'm almost at 40,000 words, but I've reset my goal to 75,000 since that's more novel sized. If I write 2000 words each day for the next two weeks, I'll get there.
My husband is out of town this weekend though, so I thought that this might be a good opportunity to go balls to the walls and actually finish it. Whew. Can I do 30,000 words in three days? It's physically possible, but we'll have to see.
Upcoming artwork that I've been doing of my characters to help me 'understand them better' - aka an excellent way to procrastinate that writing.
So a website was started in an effort to get people to join the literary cause. Goals were set up. The point of the whole thing is to write 50,000 words in one month. November is the official Nanowrimo month, so that gives 31 days. That's a lot of words.
I have attempted this many times since I've always wanted to write a book. However, I seem to have a wee bit of a problem finishing my novels. So when the writing bug hit late April, I decided to seize the carp and get working on my novel. So far, so good. I'm almost at 40,000 words, but I've reset my goal to 75,000 since that's more novel sized. If I write 2000 words each day for the next two weeks, I'll get there.
My husband is out of town this weekend though, so I thought that this might be a good opportunity to go balls to the walls and actually finish it. Whew. Can I do 30,000 words in three days? It's physically possible, but we'll have to see.
Upcoming artwork that I've been doing of my characters to help me 'understand them better' - aka an excellent way to procrastinate that writing.
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The Fine Arts
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Well, I made a deal with my sister Nakedvanilla to do some collaboration artwork. We'll each draw something based on a theme we both have decided on, then send our drawings to each other. Then we color the drawing that has been sent to us, and put it all up on Deviant Art. The idea is to do this once per week. I'm a little slow this week, because my husband and I have decided to write a novel in the month of August. That's right. 31 days to write 50,000 words.
This idea is not original, it's a variation of Nanowrimo, I just didn't want to wait until November to write a novel. I have the momentum now, dammit, and I'm taking full advantage of that! So far so good. I've discovered some lovely cafes to visit during August, and I have my creative writing hats ready to wear.
So thumbs up to great art and the written word!
This idea is not original, it's a variation of Nanowrimo, I just didn't want to wait until November to write a novel. I have the momentum now, dammit, and I'm taking full advantage of that! So far so good. I've discovered some lovely cafes to visit during August, and I have my creative writing hats ready to wear.
So thumbs up to great art and the written word!
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