yup, that's right, it's almost November again and time for another month of attempting to write a novel or some semblance therein. every year i aim for 50k words so i can "win" the event. so far i've managed to only win once, in 2008. and that's only because i did a massive word dump, lol.this year my intention was to continue with a wee project i started early last year, a travel journal for a fake trip to Ireland. the concept for that started back in the spring of 2009 when i ran across International Fake Journal Month (IFJM) over on Roz Stendahl's blog. but i happened across it too late in the month (April) to fully participate. i decided then that i would flesh out the story in November for
i did think, however, that i had enough to work with to participate in the 2010 IFJM project. well, April 2010 came and went without any activity related to Ireland. le sigh.
ramping up for this year's
i finally realized late in the day yesterday that the urge to write family stories is too strong to ignore. trying to focus on the Irish project felt forced, while the memoir kept poking through my awareness, demanding my attention. and because the memoir feels more natural, i think it will help keep my focus and my enthusiasm for the month of writing. i may even reach 50k again!!
there will be many more posts on this subject, so it's fair to say "to be continued."
Whew, I really got lost. But then, I never understood these online writing places which seem to exist for motivation or something - but to which, one need not post any writing at all, but can simply report how many words they wrote. Ok, I like that, so far I've written 517 in this message alone.
ReplyDeleteBut it sounds like the imaginary trip to Ireland is off, thank the imaginary gods, we here in Ireland are so imaginary relieved that you won't be pretending to be here, and pretending to disturb all of us. It's probably not a bad thing, you know, because the most interesting imaginary travel stories are not to be found in travel guides, except for some verisimilitude in regard to the names of restaurants (however, you'd probably have more fun making up restaurants by searching on google for, say Irish mythology.
Anyway, onward and upward to the imaginary family journal. Well, only if the imaginary stories are more interesting than the real ones, that is.
And congratulations on your new great-nephew, whom we presume is not imaginary at all.
yay -- long blog entry bodes well for 2010 nano writing. Carry on, my liege (or mileage if you prefer.) Spin that odometer and prayer wheel ;)
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