The Relaunch
I must have started and re-started this blog a gazillion times. Will this be the time it sticks? I sure hope so.
It’s November 1st, 2020, a happy/sad day. Happy because it’s my Mom’s birthday and that makes me smile. Sad because this is her 5th birthday in heaven and I really really wish I could give her a big birthday hug in person.
Because I can’t do that and since my Mom was such a lover of reading, I thought I would honor her by starting the NaNoWriMo writing challenge. If you haven’t heard of NaNoWriMo, let me fill you in. It stands for “National Novel Writing Month” and it’s been happening every November since 1999. Their site explains it better than I could…
It’s a wild, fast-paced creative writing event where the challenge is to write 50,000 words of the first draft of a novel in just 30 days. That’s 1,667 words (or about 6.5 double-spaced typed pages) a day! For comparison, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is 50,061 words and The Giver by Lois Lowry is 41,905 words.
Source… nanowrimo.org
Because I am not writing a novel, I am challenging myself to writing one blog post a day for the entire month of November. This is Day 1 of 30 – I hope you will stick with me and see where this month takes me 🙂 For fun, I’ve invited some family members to join me in this challenge. You can start your own NaNoWriMo challenge too! If you do, let me know what your challenge is and how it’s going – I’d love to support you in your writing goals as well!
Let’s do this!