Divinely Crafty

Truthfully, not a start at all.  Good,bad,or indifferent.  I did get as far as poking around the NaNoWriMo website and found myself in awe of all the myriad authors and their ideas.  Such grand visions and inspiration.  Unfortunately none of it rubbed off on me.  Midnight was fast approaching and I had not written word one when an online friend of mine posted to her facebook status that she was considering doing NaBloPoMo instead of NaNoWriMO (type that ten times fast!) which I have to admit sounded like a very good idea to me.   I jokingly commented that since I wrote a blog post yesterday that I might write another today announcing that I was jumping ship to NaBloPoMo because it is the easier of the two goals for me.  I went to bed thinking, yep, that is what I am going to do.  I know I can do it.  Piece of cake.

This morning, however,  I felt a bit sheepish about last night’s revision of my goal.  If the true idea is to push myself beyond my comfort zone, then blog posting is not going to accomplish that.  Yes, it will be a challenge for me to post every day for a month, but aside from giving myself a swift kick in the bum each day it isn’t too hard.  I mean, a blog post can be rambling and pointless or a simple account of one’s day.  No plot and character development required.  The whole point of the novel writing was to do something that I have always secretly wanted to do but had no bloody clue how to go about it.  While not the most consistent of bloggers, I do blog and have done so for several years on a handful of different blogs.  Not much of a stretch in the NaBloPoMo in terms of exploring unknown territory, though the battle with lazy posting habits is definitely one worth facing.

I am undecided as of this moment which of the two events I am going to participate in.  This blog post keeps me in the running should NaBloPoMo be the victor in my deliberations.  While I have not written yet for my novel, I still think that if I set my mind to it (and used lots of long descriptive sentences and flowery language) I could still reach 50,000 words by the end of the month.  I don’t think there is any rule that says you have to write every day for NaNoWriMo, just that you accomplish the amount of words.  Right???   Today will be another day that I don’t do any novel writing no matter what I decide.  My tummy has been less than agreeable to day and my neighbors were destroying their stairwell and bathroom (both on the side of the house with our shared wall)  with loud power tools all day.  Neither of these things is conducive to creative writing.  Unless of course you count the colorful language  that were uttered when stuff started falling off the shelves in my bathroom due to the vibrations of whatever it is my neighbors are doing.  Grrrrrrr….