I have been in a writing rut – in that I have done nothing new for ages. Life circumstances have been against me.
It’s time to take a stand against all that. I should set myself a challenge again and give myself the proverbial kick up the arse.
So I am considering going against all the odds and partaking in NaNoWriMo this year. I have completed it once but failed the following year due to some serious illness in the family.
These days, all the demands on me mean I don’t get any time to sit down and write – event doing this today is a very rare occurrence. I have been reduced to reblogging old content.
Well, those demands are going to have to take a back seat for a while. They will need to for my own sanities sake.
My plan is not to try and create novel, novella or even a part of one as I did last time. This time I want to use the push to create 10 drafts of short stories. Each around 5000 words long. I will then use these to enter some competitions with – maybe eventually publish them as a collection as well.
Well, that’s the plan. Let’s see how it goes. Lately, my plans don’t see the light of day – this is a last-ditch attempt. I need some success.
Scott Andrew Bailey - Author 
I could never attempt this.
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You could. Anyone could. Completing it is the challenge. Go on.. you might surprise yourself. Nothing to lose.
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I write short, very short. The only exception was when I tried Blogbattlers.
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Ah that makes sense then. You could write lots of very short posts 🙂
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Sounds like a good plan to me.
NaNoWriMo has been a great motivator for me, especially when I started been involved with the community. I hope it will be a great motivator for you too.
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Good luck Scott. I signed up this year, but don’t have a clue if I’ll be able to continue!
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Good luck to you too. My thoughts are even if I do a few days or a few thousand words it’s more than I am doing now. So it will be something.
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Very true! I highly doubt I’ll “win” but we can try, eh!
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I’ve done nanowrimo twice-ish first in ’08 then In ’16. I was sorta able to complete the worlds best novel in ’08 (follow Garrison Keelor on sarcasm as by ’11 the 50k was lost to different email by then- all lost things take on mythic values) and in ’16 and it remains safe I chose to poeticize a radio show… Written In poetic form!
Go you!
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Are any of them available to read. Love the sound of the last one.
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https://dreamtimestarmanjones.wordpress.com/2016/11/19/n16-19-let-me-give-you-a-hug/. Creation blogs were nxx n1 n2 etc. To illustrate butt In chair writing.
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