Tagged: NaNoWriMo

Is it November Already?

I’m approaching 4,000 words after a day and half of writing with “literary abandon”. The development of my plot is taking on a life of its own, which is great since I didn’t think the story through that much prior to beginning. The write-in at the St. Louis Bread Co. in Clayton on Sunday was well-attended. Seemed like a significant number of people were working on science fiction stories. I’m basing this conclusion solely on appearance and the extremely loud tangential conversations I overheard, over the already loud music piping out of my headphones. Anywho, onward and upward. I’m registered as “viharsheth” on NaNoWriMo.org if you want to be writing buddies.

The weak-but-better-than-nothing smoke-free legislation for St. Louis County, and indirectly St. Louis City, will be on the ballot on Tuesday, which is tomorrow people so get your asses to the polls, but only if you’re voting for the ban. If not, stay home and smoke a pack, or two!

I dressed up as a doctor for Halloween, and not any old doctor. I was the one and only Sanjay Gupta, M.D., neurosurgeon and CNN Chief Medical Correspondent. I only realized today I should have gone as something more “green”, like global warming, an oil spill, or a compact fluorescent light bulb. I promise to put more effort into it next year. I could get a lot of bang for my buck if I went as something like this and attending a GOP-sponsored Halloween party. Gotta raise awareness people! If only . . .

National Novel Writing Month

It’s been six weeks since my last post. Sorry. I’m trying to get motivated to continue this blog in its current form and I’m not sure that’s possible, at least at this point. More on that in a future post I hope. I’m planning now for a new writing project, albeit a temporary one. I’m going to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) which starts on November 1, 2009 and lasts until you hit 50,000 words or the calendar flips to December 1, 2009, whichever comes first. If you want to learn more, check out this website: http://www.nanowrimo.org.

Why NaNoWriMo? The entire concept of National Novel Writing Month is primarily to be motivated by a deadline, and secondarily to strive for a goal that’s very difficult to attain – writing 50,000 words in a month. Yikes. I’d heard about the endeavor before and had given it passing consideration earlier this year. As with my previous attempts at writing anything creative, it was fleeting. But, a few weeks back on the social cancer known as Facebook a friend asked if anyone was considering trying. I decided to man up and sign up.

Since we had the initial back and forth online, a few other friends have committed. I’ve joined the forums online and scheduled to attend the “write-in” parties that are planned periodically throughout the month.

I’ll be honest. I’m scared. Scared that I won’t succeed and scared that what I write will suck (which I’m learning it is supposed to). I’m not going to publish what I write here but I will publish updates on how it’s going, among other things related to sustainability – the original theme of green | rising. The funny thing is that I see this project as contributing to my own sustainability in a way, making discussion of it quite appropriate for this site. Stay tuned.