It’s That Time of Year Again

That’s Right: NaNoWriMo Time

This time tomorrow, it will be upon us. The great writing event of the year: National Novel Writing Month–or NaNoWriMo for short (NaNo for even shorter). I kicked off this blog writing about it (albeit 5 months too late) and again, I continue to write about it. This time though, the writing comes in the form of anticipation, of excitement, and mostly:

of dread.

I have a plan, I promise. I really do. It’s all there, all ready to go. It’s just. Well… maybe I don’t have a plan. Maybe I only have the most shoestring thin worm of an idea that I am desperately clinging to, hoping I can tie enough knots in it to keep my grip from slipping.

But even with the worry, the dread, and the fretting about what I will write about (or, in this case, revise about) I’m excited. Friends are joining in from all around, writing groups are being discussed and formed. It’s as much a time of writing as it is a time of community, and as solitary writers, more community is always a good thing.

So, here’s to the second draft. Here’s to hoping that this will give me a second kick-in-the-pants that I need to get writing again. Once it’s all done, and the dust is settled, hopefully I should have something that I will feel good about sending to friends and family members, allowing them to peek into the inner world of this project that I feel I have been working on for far too long.

Here’s to hoping that all pans out, that I end this coming month with some satisfaction and a sense of achievement. At the very least, I know that it will be a nice time to reconnect with writing friends and get back in the right headspace. However it ends up, I’m sure that it will be a highly valuable month, as it was last year.

As a final parting note: here’s a photo from Toronto in the fall (blog post about all that to be sent out sometime soon enough, perhaps once all the NaNo nonsese is over).

Best of luck to everyone else participating and may the writing gods flow through you!