As penance for not getting anywhere with NaNoWriMo this year, I will be writing a short poem every day in December. The first 31 people who comment on the Facebook version of this post get to pick the titles (one per person).
All poems will be posted on my personal website, and each title contributor will be notified when their poem goes up.
*sigh* Maybe next year…
I have been terribly neglectful of this blog, and of a number of things, over the past few weeks. I have two or three blog posts I’ve been meaning to make, and simply haven’t gotten around to writing up. And my desk is a mess.
Those posts will have to wait, however. As everyone knows, November is now just about a week away. And as not everyone knows, there’s an alternate name for November in my circle: NaNoWriMo.
For those of you who don’t know, NaNoWriMo (“National Novel-Writing Month”) is an international endeavour in which thousands of people all…
It’s almost November, and you know what that means…
NaNoWriMo!
For those of you who don’t know, NaNoWriMo is a month-long international endeavour in which thousands of people all agree they’re going to write 50,000-word stories by the end of the year. I’ve twice now participated and “won” (i.e. made it to 50K before the deadline), and I can say it’s pretty awesome—at the very least, for the rest of your life you get to say you wrote a novel. And the write-ins—scheduled events where you go to a café or someplace and hang out with other NaNo writers—are just…