Well, here we are. I have actually managed to talk myself into doing a writing challenge. I'm not sure what moment of temporary insanity inspired that...
First off, you can read about HiveBloPoMo here if you're interested.
Topics, Topics, Topics...
There's actually a calendar of topics for this challenge, and I've decided that I'll probably use quite a few of those, just to stretch my writing outside my typical beaten (writing) path.
We'll see.
At least some of the time I'm sure I'll revert to "random rambles."
So what are my goals with this?
For one, to get a little more steady with my creativity. I tend to work in fits and starts, and maybe this will inspire me to actually show up every day.
Badges!
I do want another one of HiveBuzz's nifty "monthly author" badges... sure I do!
I have tried NaNoWriMo many times, and always came up short. Maybe I will succeed at this because blogging is different from trying to write a novel, or even a non-fiction book. My short little span of attention seems to lend itself well to blogging. A blog post stands alone. I don't have to develop characters or worry about maintaining a story line.
It's ironic, really. When I was a kid and told people that I wanted to grow up and "write stories" I wasn't yet aware that I am far better at life and non-fiction than I am at telling actual stories.
So, GOALS...
NaNoWriMo sets as a goal that you "write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days."
So I suppose it would be a somewhat nifty goal to see if I end up writing 50,000 words' worth of blog posts, in November. For the purposes of counting up that, I'm going to include both the challenge posts as well as other blog posts I might add along the way.
You see, I'm not expecting this to be instead of my regular writing... more of a side-by-side thing.
Will I actually end up writing 1,667 words a day on average?
Seems unlikely.
One of the primary reasons I seemed to fail at NaNoWriMo is that writing that much every day assumes that you don't have a life outside writing. Writing is actually fairly far down the list of things I try to get to, on a daily basis.
So I suppose I will have to prioritize my writing further up the list, if I want to make it to the end of this challenge!
Any other goals? Not really. Just finishing this challenge is the goal!
Thanks for stopping by, and till the next one!
How about YOU? Are you doing this month long challenge? Or one of the others I've fecently come across? Have you ever done any 30-day writing challenges? Did you finish? Comments, feedback and other interaction is invited and welcomed! Because — after all — SOCIAL content is about interacting, right? Leave a comment — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!
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First of, great pictures, very cute. And, well yeah, I wanted to start with HiveBloPoMo I missed the time frame by a few hours cause, well, kids, so I'm gona have to pass on the badge at least, but I think I'm still giving it a go just to see if I can finish it all
I totally get it about missing the deadline; I had to do the mad scramble to get the first post our before the UTC deadline... I'm on the US west coast, so we're 7 hours later...
Have fun!
Yep, I've totally been bitten by the Hive Buzz badge bug...lol! Sad to say that even though I've been doing this challenge a couple times of a year for a few years, I've only ever managed the monthly badge twice.
And I will say that when I did my very first NaNoWriMo back in... 2006? I think?... I was stuck for a large part of the month, and my word count was ridiculously low. It wasn't until I decided to tell a fictionalized version of a court case I'd been involved in (as a witness & the person who'd blown the proverbial whistle) that the words flew from my fingers. When I went back to pure fiction, it was agony squeezing out enough words to cross the finish line.
I agree that making the writing a bigger priority is instrumental in winning the challenge. I know it's wicked early in the month, but I get a feeling you're gonna nail this!
Well done!
I like that there is a prompt in the community; it will helps me write about some things I perhaps would not normally consider.