National Novel Writing Month: NaNoWriMo

Hehe im already signed up....my friends have already started the teasing about my head being up in the clouds!

Sounds Pretty Cool!

its about a girl basically, who is having problems with her bf....I got the idea from a friends relationship, then added some...Whats urs about?

sounds like a pretty whacked out contest i might try it

so the point of it is...?

You offer some excellent observations about writing, Annelyse. I'm impressed over what you say about aiming low. That's definitely contrarian thinking.

I have a true story on my web site about about an author whose life's ambition was to write a novel and have it published. She set her goals high and was very self critical. Once she was finished, she continued to revise it many times over in a quest for perfection. If it was not for an intervening act that was unexpected, she would probably still be going through more revisions. Her novel became a huge success and she has gone on to have 16 more successful books published.

I'll consider it but for the past 6 months I've felt like I'm on an involuntary sabbatical from creativity.

Also, like Rosemary, I tend to be an obsessive self critic, a habit that leads to an endless, repetitious stream of editing. It would be a struggle to quickly change from this long established compulsion in order to rise to the NaNoWriMo challenge. Old habits die hard.