I’m just terrible at this. It turns out there’s a reason I haven’t posted here in the past few days – that’s because I’ve been writing elsewhere. What?
It was quite accidental. Honest. I was curious about how NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, which is November) compared to NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month, which is April) in terms of organization. You lived through me living through NaPoWriMo – 30 poems in 30 days. There were a bunch of haikus. You’ve seriously blocked it from your memory probably.
In order to check out NaNoWriMo, I had to create an account and log in. NaNoWriMo is very fun and organized, with servers and word count validation and writing buddies and cool lootz. The NaPoWrMo folks also fun but more dispersed across the web with a variety or ring leaders who throw out ideas and themes and style challenges etc. Different but similar. NaPoWriMo = 30 poems in 30 days. NaNoWriMo = 50000 words in 30 days. They put the emphasis on having fun and discourage agony. It’s all about getting people to actually write and get their ideas down on paper or computer.
Literally while I was looking at this, I get a notice that my fav software BBEdit has a paid update available. I say yes and continue reading while downloading and paying etc. The new software opens up, shows me some preferences and is its normal cool self and opens a blank page.
Now if that isn’t the universe conspiring I don’t know what is. Next thing I knew I had something like 2100 words and a file saved to hard drive and dropbox and well…
I’ll write more about what this new-to-me process is like because it’s MUCH different than my quilt-making process. So far I’ve been keeping up with the daily suggested 1667 words a day towards the 30 day goal. Amazing. Fun fun fun.
In other news, my ticket for Beethoven’s 7th came yesterday!
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust (1871-1922
All sounds busy to me. Have fun. I know you will.
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