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NaNoWriMo and the Tent

October 29, 2010 by sue campbell

Remember this?  My post about my house being a disaster, what with a tent being pitched in my backyard for months on end?  And how I was busy crafting instead?

While most of the issues outlined in that post have been addressed, I have yet to take down the tent.  I make excuses and postpone.  I’m not sure why.

Well, last week I got a wild idea that I should write a novel in November.  Everybody’s doing it.  It’s called National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo for short. 50,000 words in 30 days.

I signed up and nagged a bunch of Twitter friends into doing it, too. (I made a list of the intrepid here.) But it took me a day or two to work up the courage to tell Ben.

I told him on the car ride home, as we were crossing the Ross Island Bridge. I explained the concept of NaNoWriMo and before I could finish Ben started chanting in a Rainman monotone, “Take down the tent, take down the tent, take down the tent.”  We both burst into laughter, but I got the message.  He would be supportive, but only if the tent came down first.

I feel rather blessed that this was Ben’s only stipulation for my embarking on this madness.  Not only is he supportive, he’s ridiculously full of good ideas for the book once I explained by general concept.

I’ll do my best to keep posting on this blog.  At least one day a week I’ll have an excerpt from the novel.  But expect shorter posts and lots of pictures.  There will definitely be a photo of the tent drip drying in my basement.

Filed Under: Time Management Tagged With: NaNoWriMo, novel writing

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