Guest Post by Grady Pruitt. It’s Halloween. The kids have gone to bed. Your spouse is asleep. But you’re wide awake. Full of anticipation. NaNoWriMo is about to begin. Time seems to drag. Midnight seems as if it will never get there. You have committed to writing 50,000 words or more in the next 30 days. You’re not quite sure why, but that sounded like a fun idea. Especially when you sit down and realize all you need is 1,667 words a day to reach your goal. Tick. Tock. The laptop is ready. Tick. Tock. The notes are on the desk. Tick. Tock. Will it ever begin?
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Enter NaNoWriMo 2020! I’m doing it with Rebooster and Alina B.
Did I decide to join NaNoWriMo for 2020? Check! And did I do it with the already planned Rebooster and Alina B.? Check! With the only difference that I’m no longer going to have Rebooster and Alina B. as a light novel but a regular novel with illustrations. The cover image above is an unedited version of the artwork my friend Luana Spinetti did for me a year ago for this project. I’m so happy to finally be able to work on it for a month (then I’ll resume it sometimes in 2021 after I’ll be done with an old novel that has been laying around for 23 years) and…
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NaNoWriMo 2019 Failed… and Why I Think It Wasn’t A Failure at All
I attempted NaNoWrimo in 2019, but once again, I failed. This time around there was more on my plate thank merely anxiety and a surge of workload to deal with: one of my best friend (like a sister to me) lost her father to leukemia a month earlier, and I was greatly affected too, since I knew the man and I loved him as if he was another father. The loss hit me greatly, but most of all, I couldn’t leave my friend alone to deal with such a huge trauma, so I used most of my free time to take care of her. Seriously, when a friend is like…
