I’ve been thinking about NaNoWrMo, November Novel Writing Month, in which participants strive to write a 50,000 novel in the month of November. It seems absurd to me, as I take about a year to write much shorter children’s novels. But I’ve been told it’s just a first draft, and for some people, it’s a really good way to motivate themselves to whack out a lot of words.
It still doesn’t interest me, but when I heard about the equivalent for picture books, an idea a day through November, I thought ‘Hmmm, I could do that.’ And I have been. I have a long list of ideas in a notebook. Some are too small to stand on their own, and a few are developing into something I might play with. When I’m not immersed in a novel. That’s the fundamental problem right now: I’m focused on a long project, and I have a growing list of smaller projects I’d like to spend time on (including editing some stories that aren’t working yet, that I have hope for). Somehow, there’s never enough time for all the things I want to accomplish. And that, perhaps, is the appeal of NaNoWrMo – to simply dive in and go for it.
Maureen
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