It is at about this time each year that I get sent many emails from NaNoWrimo and NaPlwrimo. "What are you talking about?" I hear you cry dear reader, well let me tell you. Nanowrimo started out a fair few years back with the intention of encouraging people to write a novel in a month. Ridiculous though it may seem, It became very popular, and had over 200000 participants last year. If you hadn't already guessed, November is the month in question, and people are gearing up to write. I have always been tempted with it, and have started on two occasions, narrowly failing to reach the 50000 word deadline, by approximately 49500 words each time. Naplwrimo is a play version of this and seems to me to be far more achievable. However, November is a rather busy month for me, in that I have two assignments to hand in, a Play to produce and perform in, two new clubs to start and a couple of new sessions to start. Am I mad even considering this? Why don't I leave it till December and just start by myself? The whole point of this scheme is that you can "Socialise" with other writers online and compare notes etc...It sounds ghastly to me, but I am strangely drawn to it. The whole aspect of writing this little blog each day has helped me enormously, and I wonder whether the freedom of writing either a full length play or a novel might do me good? There would be little if no time to edit, worry or stress about the details, and the freedom of that....just writing for the sake of it might be a great experience for me. The rules are quite specific, in that you cannot write something that you have already worked on, and you are supposed to log in each week to update the website on your progress. Of course, I doubt that there will be any form of prosecution should you fail on either of these, but I do suspect that it would be worth abiding by them. I am very tempted. By writing 1700 words a day, you would complete a novel. The five minutes it has taken me to write this blog so far, means I am already a fifth of my way to the daily total. Of course, if the novel was just this, It would be pretty dreadful, but the point remains that it is far more achievable than my first impression. Perhaps that WOULD be a good novel? A month in the life of a non-entity would be a good title! Of course, You don't have to write every day...there will be days where real life gets in the way, or that poor substitute that I sometimes refer to as a life. As you can tell, I have almost certainly already decided to do this. On top of the 1700 words a day of course, I would also need to keep up with the blog, which might then turn out to be me moaning about how appalling my novel is, and asking why on earth I started this when I have better things to do with my time? If for example I wrote the full length play, it might then serve as a draft for next years production based on Peter Pan? Oh questions and quandrys be gone!!! I need to make a decision.
Myself and youngest went to Luton today to pay money into the bank and to do a little shopping and Father daughter bonding. I am never sure about such things, but I suspect that she is a genius. She is just the best company for a 12 year old, and makes me burst with laughter and pride all at once. In the evening we had a Christmas Show meeting and then curled up in front of the latest Attenborough documentary. A pleasant day all round!
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