NaNoWriMo - It's Coming!
Yup, it's around the corner again, and I'm scheduled to be insane for a month, driving my family crazy with disappearing into the computer room for hours doing, as one of my favourite authors advises, the BIC technique.
WHat?! No, not the pen people, right?!
No, not the pen people, the pen company or whatever you may think of them, no, not at all, unless you use pen and paper, rather than the electric dots paving the way into our word processors of whatever nature.
B.I.C. = Butt in Chair
Doesn't sound so fancy a technique, when it comes to that, but as I found last year, when I took a chance on myself, and expanding my self's definitions, it can be pretty hard, especially when the rest of life (including hubby, birds and small children) are all demanding to see Wife/Mommy. Worse when it's obvious that they are being demanding because they just. . . miss you.
So. Take a chance on yourself. Check out NaNoWriMo, otherwise known as the National Novel Writing Month, back every year for the whole of the Month of November. Kids, too, if you're old enough.
Take a chance.
Go to the website, read the FAQ (frequently asked questions), the rules, dig around a little.
Then sign on, no matter when in the month of November it is (I had 7-15 days or something like that), and see if you can beat my wimpy little ~7800 words. I'm sure you can, and I'll be right there with you, trying to beat my 2005 word total, too. Whatever lousy stuff comes out, if I don't say "yes" and do BIC, then nothing will get written - but if I take that chance again, maybe someday I'll be a novel-writer, even if it's only one novel.
Not a bad thing to add to one's life achievements, eh?
Do it.
; D
~bb
Yup, it's around the corner again, and I'm scheduled to be insane for a month, driving my family crazy with disappearing into the computer room for hours doing, as one of my favourite authors advises, the BIC technique.
WHat?! No, not the pen people, right?!
No, not the pen people, the pen company or whatever you may think of them, no, not at all, unless you use pen and paper, rather than the electric dots paving the way into our word processors of whatever nature.
B.I.C. = Butt in Chair
Doesn't sound so fancy a technique, when it comes to that, but as I found last year, when I took a chance on myself, and expanding my self's definitions, it can be pretty hard, especially when the rest of life (including hubby, birds and small children) are all demanding to see Wife/Mommy. Worse when it's obvious that they are being demanding because they just. . . miss you.
So. Take a chance on yourself. Check out NaNoWriMo, otherwise known as the National Novel Writing Month, back every year for the whole of the Month of November. Kids, too, if you're old enough.
Take a chance.
Go to the website, read the FAQ (frequently asked questions), the rules, dig around a little.
Then sign on, no matter when in the month of November it is (I had 7-15 days or something like that), and see if you can beat my wimpy little ~7800 words. I'm sure you can, and I'll be right there with you, trying to beat my 2005 word total, too. Whatever lousy stuff comes out, if I don't say "yes" and do BIC, then nothing will get written - but if I take that chance again, maybe someday I'll be a novel-writer, even if it's only one novel.
Not a bad thing to add to one's life achievements, eh?
Do it.
; D
~bb
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