So, what is the best thing you could do with yourself outside your busy life? Attempting to write a novel in a month is the first thing that comes to my mind. Of course.

So, before I continue, I offer my unfathomably solemn apologies for the 1.5 month break between updates. I’ve been spectacularly busy-esque! But, I’ve partly just been neglectful of my reading and therefore my bookedy blogging.

I am smack dab in the middle of a rather brilliant Ted Dekker masterpiece right now. I’m not done with it but I highly recommend at least the first twenty-something chapters of Showdown. I finished Adam right before opening up Showdown and that has been my favorite thus far. This guy amazes me. How can one dude reel out so much incredible imagery and beautiful meaning? If he doesn’t take a break then I’ll never get caught up with his stuff.

I’ve also been enjoying my little bundle of joy! I announced not to long ago that we were expecting and now here I am nearly halfway through the pregnancy! Everything is going beautifully. But that’s not what this blog is for . . . (until baby is born and all I can talk about is Dr. Seuss or the latest published child psychology hoopla!)

So where was I?? Oh yeah! NaNoWriMo! It’s National Novel Writing Month again this November. I remember hearing this via some ambitiously nerdy friends several years ago and it had escaped my mind until I began doing some personal-interest research on writing historical fiction. It came up in a google search and it all flooded back! What’s better is it is just in time for me to get an account set up and try this out.

The challenge is to complete 50,000 words. The race starts November 1st and ends on November 30th. Considering some of the 1-2k word papers I slapped together in a couple of days (AND made decent grades on) for English, Psychology, and Old Testament classes I took last year, I think I might have a chance.

I might be considered a cheater though. I realized recently that two or three short-story/prose pieces I’ve written could possibly be melded together.  Sometime between finding out I was pregnant and realizing I was pregnant I felt the desperate urge to give something exceptional to the world. My goal in writing has only ever been to release myself. It’s my way of opening up and being honest, I guess. I write for my sake and my enjoyment. If ever something I wrote were to benefit or even simply engage just one other person . . . I’d be overjoyed. But, my worldview has been dramatically effected by this thing I think they call motherhood. I’ve always attempted long shots at writing my own book but I hope to take this as a more serious challenge, less for completing one novel and more for giving myself a head-start on a project I truly have my heart set on.

So, check it out and definitely let me know if you’re interested because they have a networking system on there so we can keep up with eachother!

~ Love, laughs, and good reading

 

 

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