I put most of this in the previous blog but I will put it here as well. What I decided to 'create' was a book. I got on NaNoWriMo, a website for National Novel Writer's Month that is set up to help you write a book in a month. My best friend told me about it the night before it started (November 1st) so I had no time to consider it and think of reasons not to do it. A book in a month.... Yeah it sounds crazy and impossible but I'm willing to give it a shot. I have wanted to be a published writer for most of my life and have never had problems with plot -- there are fully thought out plot lines in my head and have been for a very long time. It's the doing it. I guess the fear of failure overrides the fear of not even trying. I start to write them and never finish. Perhaps the failure is supposedly different if I am the one to make it happen (by making nothing happen)? I don't know. If you don't try you never fail they say, but really that's the biggest failure of all. Well, I've come to the conclusion that I would rather try, rather finish SOMETHING.
This is all new to me really. Scheduled writing. Pushing myself to do it everyday instead of just when it 'hits me'. But so far it's working. Sorry, nothing graphic to show the class. I've been busy writing. Every day. It's weird. It's good. I like it.
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