Day Twelve: Writing

I am an incredible writer.

I don’t want to toot my own horn, but sometimes you have to. Today is the last day of NaNoWriMo and for those of you who don’t know, means that I wrote 50,000 words in a month. Just to give you some perspective, that is roughly 1,700 words a day. In Times New Roman font, size twelve, that’s about three pages a day. We all remember how hard it was in high school to write a five paragraph essay, imagine writing one every single day for a month.

This is less of an “I’m awesome” and more of an “Everybody who even tries to do NaNo is awesome.” Seriously, this is a pretty hefty task to take on. Planning and plotting a novel, or even part of a novel, is seldom an easy thing. Even fifty thousand words of gibberish is a lot of writing.

I decided to do my novel this year as a follow up to the book I wrote previous, Cornerstone Café,which is available on Amazon. This is also kind of a big deal for me because I usually don’t have the patience to do a sequel. I’m usually right on to my next big idea.

I love to write. It is my life’s passion. I pursued it in college as a degree and I plan to pursue it someday as a career. I have so many ideas in my head it’s positively crazy. Honestly, a movie studio should hire me and just stick me in a room to write for them. I’ve got so much going on they wouldn’t even have to worry about another Writer’s Strike.

Anyway, I wanted to throw out the congratulations for all the NaNo folks out there. We’re the ones hiding in the coffee shops and the bookstores hording the internet and trying like mad to write three pages before tomorrow. Next year, another novel.

Challenge to my Readers:

Write something today.  A poem, a story, a letter to grandma. Even a grocery list. But write it and love that it was written by you and therefore worth something.  

Also, if you get the chance, check out the sponsors of Nano, The Office of Letters andLights. They help bring writing seminars to people all over the world.