National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) officially ended yesterday. I had signed up, and I got nearly 19,000 words written, out of a goal of 50,000 total words. Then work intervened — an unexpected memorial service, craziness in the office, too much to do generally. I’d come home, and all I wanted was to sit and do nothing. Writing a novel involved too much mental effort. So I stopped.
My older sister, Jean, had warned me:– November is a bad month in which to try NaNoWriMo. She did it in July. Maybe I’ll try again come July….
This past week, work slowed down enough that I actually had energy to engage in mental effort when I came home. But instead of resuming work on the abandoned novel, I found myself picking up an old book project that I had gotten stuck on about three years ago, and had filed away. I’m not going to say any more about this project, except to say that I finally seem to be getting somewhere with it.
It is quite possible I wrote 50K words in November, what with search packets, ministerial records, papers and the like. Subtract those out of the novel writing, I got 2400 words done.
2400.
Perhaps I could say that I wrote an extended, semi-autobiographical account of one man’s search for the perfect church job?
I think we should initate JuBiBoWriMo (July Big Book Writing Month).
What do you think?
An sub-category could be JuBiBoWriMoWiBro (July Big Book Writing Month With Brothers)
Obijuan — Semi-autobiographical stuff doesn’t make it in the NaNoWriMo rules as I understand them — it’s supposed to be complete fiction. But see Jean’s comment below yours (Jean writes creative non-fiction, so she doesn’t technically qualify for NaNoWriMo either).
Jean — Sounds like a good idea. I’ll bet the URI is available, so we could buy the domain name and make it happen….