Hello friends!! Happy NaNoWrMo to you all!!! NaNo WHAT?? Yes, I know your eyebrows are knit together in confusion. November is the official National Novel Writing Month, or as those in the writers world may call it "writing and mental suicide". Basically what happens is writers all over the world use the month of November to try to compose a 50,000 (yep fifty thousand) word novel. The novel cannot be started until after midnight of November 1st and must be done before 11:59 on November 30th.
So I know many of you may be asking "Well Rachael, why are you spending time blogging, if you're taking on such a monumental task?" Well truth is, friends, I'm not. Yep that's right; I'm turning away from the challenge of a lifetime. Well, at least for now. It's not that I wouldn't love to try, honestly I'm kinda upset with myself that I'm not, but as a college freshman in my first semester, I feel like I would be undercutting myself and wasting the huge amount of money I am spending on my education. I know there are many out there who are rolling their eyes and saying "I'm a student and I'm doing it" which I applaud them for, but for me and in my writing style, it just isn’t possible right now. Let me take a second to explain my writing style.
When I start a new book, it's all I think about, day and night, I even sometimes dream about my characters. I talk to them in my head (I hear this is normal of writers, but then again have I ever been normal??) and think "If (insert character name here) was doing this, what would they say?" It's crazy. I can't stop thinking about it until I'm finished and even think about it long after I have left the characters on the page. When I'm in the middle of a project, it consumes my mind leaving little room for anything else.
With that said, I wasn't ready for the challenge of writing a book, going to class, studying for exams and fitting sleep in there somehow all in a month. Plus, I kinda started something Saturday night and I'm in no hurry to end it....just sayin'. So, not wanting to feel disconnected from the writing world, I came up with a little idea I like to call "30 posts in 30 days". It's my version of NaNoWrMo. Every day from now to December 1st I will have a new post. Some will be things about me and others will be whatever comes out of my head. I must warn you though, Molly and Zachary might show up every now and then (that's their names!!). So let the adventure begin!!!
See you tomorrow--
Rachael Rae
Very cool. :-) This will be a good break.
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