NaBloPoMo

Alright, so I didn't quite make 30 posts in November or one a day (I was close though!). HOWEVER I did post a heckuva lot more than I had been up to that point. Some of them were not my best effort, but at least a handful of them were decent.

I'm still finding my voice and figuring out what to write about and how, and I do think forcing myself to write so often was a really fantastic exercise. I should set some new goal for December, like a decent post with pictures a week, or every two days, or every day I don't work, or something.

NaNoWriMo/NaBloPoMo (1/30)

For those of you who don't know, November is National Novel Writing Month. A novel is defined as 50,000 words and in order to write that many words in a month, you have to write 1667 words a day.

My freshman year of college, I was really into writing and so I signed up for my first NaNo, and I finished it pretty easily. The next year, I gave it a good shot but didn't really have any direction and didn't make it too far. Since then, I've given it a brief try almost each year, I think, but never came anywhere even close to that first year. I had the drive, the story, and the time. I'm still proud of that, and I still wish I could go back but ugh coming up with an idea that I can follow through on and be proud of, just...

I love reading and I always feel like I should tell my own stories (and I have at various times in the past), but I read so much, I worry I can't think of any original ideas. Thinking of ideas is hardest for me, in anything. The follow through and running with an idea is easier.

I'm still debating today that I should sit down and figure something out. But in the meantime, I'm gonna try for National Blog Posting Month, instead--posting one thing each day. So here's number one.