Did you know that November is National Novel Writing Month? No? Neither did I until a poster on Mumsnet mentioned that she had signed up.
It is an interesting idea. During the month of November, you register with the NaNoWriMo website with the aim of writing a 50,000 word novel. To do this, you really have to commit to 2,000 words a day.
The aim is not to write a blockbusting, best-selling novel in a month (although that would be rather thrilling) but to write. To stop procrastinating, twittering, mumsnetting, doing all those things that make it impossible to write. To just do it - to steal a advertising slogan.
The tight time frame does not leave room to edit and re-edit, to worry which word would be best, and if the sentence structure is great. NaNoWriMo is about writing, no matter how bad, as long as you get it onto paper - or onto a word.doc.
Since I have been thinking about writing, and have made a couple of attempts only to give up on them again, I decided this would be a great opportunity to really force myself to get more disciplined about writing.
My new daily plan started today, when I set down two hours between 10am and 12pm to write. I actually did slightly more that two hours and a grand total of 2,407 words.
During the weekdays of November, if you see me on any social networking websites between the hours of 10am and 12pm, you hereby have my permission to slap me with a cold wet fish.
You're lucky because I won't be able to see you during that time :-) Good luck, have fun and let us read the results!
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