Oct
NaNoWriMo: It’s coming!
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been a whole year already. It doesn’t seem like that long ago since I participated in my very first NaNoWriMo. Heck, I hadn’t even heard of the thing till two days before and my decision to actually try it was made just a few short hours from the starting point. It was the very first time I saw something that huge from beginning to end and it was beautiful. Never in my life had I though I could write so much in so little time.
This year has been spent counting down the months, first to my wedding, and second to the 
NaNo. Even my husband is looking forward to it as he remembers how excited I was (not to mention the fact he could game online all he wanted without me bugging him).
This year is going to be even better for two, no three, reasons. The first is that I won’t be writing alone. This is Keiyou’s first year even hearing about the NaNoWriMo and together we make kids waiting eagerly for Christmas seem more than a little lax. I have tons of writing buddies but it’s a whole new thing when you can go and actually write with that person, each tucked nicely away in your own little bubbles, keyboards clicking away into oblivion. Given, I know I’m never alone but trying to talk to my Husband about the people in my head and explain that I really don’t have any control over what they’re doing… let’s just say he finds me to be very entertaining but trying to relate is a bit tougher. :)
Second: This year I plan on going to some of those NaNo get togethers I’ve heard so much about. Last year was my first and at that point in time going out to actually meet other writers… hell, I didn’t know I could do that. Now, after blogging so long I’ve come to discover that writers really do flock together from time to time to create and destroy their own little worlds. Hopefully I’ll make some new friends. I can hardly wait!
Thirdly: I’ve changed since last November- immensely. Last year I took up the NaNo just two short months after I started blogging. I was still in a very fragile state from the things I’d come out of. Foster care hadn’t been kind to my love of books or skill with the pen, in fact it had nearly destroyed a small part of me that I’d spent so long to carefully cultivate and protect from my mother all the years she had possession of me. Initially it was my husband who encouraged me to write again and unknowingly spurred me on through the blogging world. Since then, well, you can see blogging really took off and goodness knows how many projects I have going on right now via fiction.
This year really will be different. I’m looking forward with faith in myself and bravery a whole lot of things that scare me. Now and then I’m still a little scared someone might yell at me for what I put on the page but I no longer really care. I’m willing to risk any wrath to let me imagination be as it is and I will never apologize for what goes on in my head. If someone doesn’t like it then so what? I’m not forcing anyone to read anything… alas, now I’m going off on a rant related to my past and not one related to the present so I shall digress.
This year will be different. I can hardly wait, just a few more works until the chaos starts. If anyone out there is participating and you’re reading this please click the image or the "Where you can find me." page, visit my profile and send me a message. I’d really love to connect.
Until then, peace out and blessed be all you artists and writers out there. May your ink and paint of heart never run dry and may your soul forever be an unfilled page- a book forever being written as pages turn beneath your feet and images soar from your fingers.
Tags: NaNoWriMo!
07Oct
i’ve participated two or three times. with all my silly drinking i can’t always remember without double-checking. i think i began one last year but didn’t complete… although that could’ve been the screen/film version… or even the year before…
anyhoo, i think it’s a wonderful thing, and i wish you the very best. i have a book which is close to being started, and have toyed with holding off until november. that said, until the last few days, i have been writing at least 1000 words a day on a pair of longer short stories (about 15k each), and have a third which i’m about to begin (either tonight or tomorrow, i reckon). these were mostly undertaken to prime myself for the daily write of the novel.
it’s funny… this is a complete aside… i find it much easier to talk in other people’s comments than i do my own blog. that can’t be right, can it? maybe i need another new blog where nobody knows me? but then wouldn’t that imply that i’m hiding things? and i’m really not a hider. confused… and off track, hehe… ;-)
07Oct
Rt: Off track is good, as the poem goes “two paths diverged in the woods…” or something like that. *goes back to the beginning of the comment so I can reply in order*
Last year was my very first in the NaNo, I’ve never participated in the screen/film one though I know what you’re talking about. Thought I might do it this year but I don’t even watch television let alone… well, you never know I suppose.
Wow, I love when things go just right and I get word counts like that. It’s amazing the feeling one can get when they hit that story that goes just right. :) I’m happy for you, so are you participating in the NaNo this year? If so, what’s your profile url. I’ll add you to my buddy list and nag you when your word count doesn’t go up. :D Just kidding- I won’t nag……
I’ll throw random bits of tri-colored tofu at you. :p
Hmm, you know what I know what you mean. Depending on who the person is sometimes I’m more chatty on my blog or their blog but never both, and sometimes it’s a mood thing. I don’t think it would be hiding, I think it would be like experimenting and seeing what would happen. Besides with new blogs, it’s like traveling, you get to meet new people and have new experiences to blog about and that’s life right there. New experiences and constant change. :D