NaNoWriMo

Who's going to participate in NaNoWriMo this year? For those who don't yet know, November is National Novel Writing Month, only now that the movement has exploded world-wide, it really should be InNoWriMo. For 30 days, November 1st to 30th, participants are invited to write a new work of prose fiction. Everyone who makes 50,000 words is a winner. Winners get 50% off of the fabulous fiction-writing software Scrivener that is available for trial download at http://literatureandlatte.com/

Winners also get to print a certificate that tells them how wonderful they are. If you donate $10 to the folks who run the fun, you get a halo. And they call you a cherished friend.

You can register for the fun at nanowrimo.org and they'll send you daily pep talks, count your words as often as you like, commiserate with you in your unshowered, manic misery which will probably become acute about Nov 25. So far as I know, they don't yet have support groups for families of nanowrimo participants, which is a sad thing because I think some of my family members may be wishing they had a support group this month.

Yes. I am doing nanowrimo this year. So is Sarah. Meg did it last year and will be participating in writing frenzy but since she will be working on her longstanding work of fiction, she can't exactly call it nanowrimo. But that's okay because we'll still be racing each other for word count. "We" meaning Meg and I. Not Sarah. No-one races Sarah if they care about winning.

Lizzie is going to cheer us on. And do math.

Meg has pretty much finished next month's math already, so she won't have to do math.

I will still have to do cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc. Or my family will need more than a support group.

Maybe Lizzie wants to be apprentice mom for a month. Does apprentice motherhood count as homeschooling? Meg says it counts as CALM.