NaNoWriMo or Nano (as I will be addressing it in this article) or National Novel Writing Month. I am proud to be able to openly say that I am no participating in that madness. The goal of which is to write a 500,000 word novel in a month. I would love to be able to do it and full dedicate myself to ignoring everything around me, but I do not think in the slightest that my college Grade Point Average would appreciate me ignoring my classes for a month to write. I cannot afford too do that.
NaNo takes place in the month of November and started at ten in the morning today. If I were to participate in NaNo, like the rest of the writers in the world, I would need a year to plot out the novel I plan to write for next National Novel Write Month. If you, my dear reader think I am joking. NaNo has a freaking website and provides tips for preparing to disappear into the void of ink stained hands and finger cramps during the months of October and September. Click on this sentence for the link to National Novel Writing Month website, nanowrimo.org.
I would love to participate and doing NaNoWriMo is on my bucket list, but at the moment, with College, it is not the best time. I have no clue why November is National Novel Writing Month, but you can write a novel in a month any month out of the year. November is just when everyone and their mother is doing it. I'm not even sure if participants get anything out of NaNo, other than a novel they wrote in a month. NaNo, by the way, Involves coming out of November with a fully edited ready to publish novel that has everything but a publisher and title art. NaNo is crazy as hell, Y'all. I wish I could be doing it, but I cannot feasibly participate without failing out of College and between having a full novel and keeping my grades up. I pick keeping my grades up every time.
I am not saying nobody should do NaNoWriMo, do it if you want too, it's insanely fulling to write a novel as I have heard, but at times it seems insane. 500,000 words about three novels. Doing NaNo is writing 16,129 words each day and that is about 40.5 pages in Times New Roman 12 point font with Single Spaces. Writing is intensely time consuming wither or not you are trying to write a book in a month or not. Personally, I believe that the writing process should be enjoyed and nobody should need to stress about trying to factor writing 16,129 words into their day.
