Day 19: NaNoWriMo & PiBoIdMo; aka: what bug would you be?

253 That’s how many more words I needed to make it to the halfway point exactly. 253 more words and I would have written 25,000 words of the 50,000 goal. But, alas! The midnight gong sounded somewhere out there and Friday was gone. Just like that. Gone! *poof*

Okay, so for Friday, Day 19, I wrote 1019 words to make a total of 24747. The exciting thing is that my NaNo widget shows that I have written 50% of my “novel.” Yay! For me that is quite an accomplishment to date, but I am faced with the fact that I still have half of the writing to do in less than two weeks. Eleven days, actually. Eleven days to write another 25,253 words! Yikes! Can I do it??

I have been working on Valley Sunshine publication today so that is what took writing time away from NaNo, but VS is almost done. Then I can devote more time to complete the challenge. It’s all important.

Now, PiBoIdMo is another matter entirely. I was trying to come up with an idea for it when I looked in my binder to remind myself of how many more I need to win this challenge, and I made a wonderful discovery. I had already written one down for today! Having done it very early in the day, I promptly forgot about it. 🙂 And, I now have 30 ideas! DONE!

Oh, I almost forgot to tell you! Tara (originator of PiBoIdMo) has guest bloggers on her site for inspiration for those of us who are participating in her challenge. Some of them offer prizes if we comment on what they have written. I have been doing that on some of them. Well, this afternoon Tara let me know that I won a prize from one of the guest bloggers! I’m delighted! He (Neil Numberman) illustrates a writer‘s (Aaron Reynolds) books, and what I won is a drawing. Their books are stories about adventurous bugs, like fly detectives and such. Joey Fly Private Eye. Cute, huh? So what I have to do is send them a picture of myself and Neil will draw a bug caricature of me! lol Can you imagine that? I think it’s great. Now, what bug will they see me as? hmmm

So, my burning question to you today is: If you were a bug what one do you think you would be? 🙂

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂

Day 2 of NaNoWriMo & PiBoIdMo

I will not be blogging every day through NaNoWriMo, that would get old pretty quickly, I think – boring for you. But my story is coming along, a little spooky, a little mysterious, a little jumbled up. 🙂 I’m hoping it all gets sorted out eventually. So far I’m in the first part where the character shaping is happening and the story is gradually unfolding. Usually, I don’t even know ahead what’s happening until I start writing it down. The ideas are coming and I hope they keep doing so all through November.

I am writing longhand for this, too – not doing it on computer – so at the end I will have to move it all over in order to submit it to the NaNo website for verification of having met the goal of 50,000 words. (And I plan to make it!) Apparently there is a program or site that helps do that. It must work okay because I’m not the only one using the ‘old fashioned’ way to meet the challenge – you know, pen and paper. 🙂

Tonight, with a friend’s instructions, I loaded two widgets –>there on the right side of the page. These will keep a count of my words for NaNo, and I will make note on the special page I set up for that, as well.

I also came up with a second a picture book idea for the Picture Book Idea Month challenge. So I am doing okay so far. Only 28 days to go! 🙂

So, no blog posts such as this every day, but a daily count and maybe a few thoughts on the NaNoWriMo Updates (2010) page.

Thanks for your interest.

How is your Autumn shaping up? Any creative musings going on?

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂

NaNo Writing

It was so fun giving out awards to other bloggers earlier this week. Even more fun was receiving replies from some of them. It was so inspiring to me (thanks to Laura A. Best) that I am eager to post again so soon.

Now I am again thinking about NaNo writing. Have you ever heard about it? I learned about NaNo last year but didn’t get up the ‘courage’ to attempt it. National Novel Writing takes place the whole month of November. The goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days! Sounds like a huge challenge, doesn’t it? And it is – especially where the writer does not start with anything at all or simply an outline. The rule is to write, write, write .. whatever comes to mind, with NO EDITING all the way through to the end of the month or upon reaching the 50,000 word count – and the challenge has ended.

Check it out at: http://www.nanowrimo.org

I am thinking of doing this, but … can I manage it? Of course, there is no shame in not reaching the goal, and most don’t, so if I don’t get anywhere near it I at least got started. The purpose is to write and get inspiration from just finding out what you can do. It is suggested to have a support group so that you can encourage one another along.

Have you ever taken part in NaNo? What did you learn about your writing?

Are you interested in participating?

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂