Thoughts

Well it certainly isn't cold today. When I woke yesterday it was nearly 60 degrees. One week it's wicked cold the next it's balmy...
This month is Write a Novel in a Month OR NaNoWriMo. It started in 1999. I saw it a few years ago for the first time but since I was already writing a book I didn't want to spend the time trying to cram another novel in a months time. BUT the whole idea is a very neat concept. Writing, writing, writing with a deadline of one month and having a story that reaches 50,000. No one reads it. You don't have to worry about spell checks or any grammar or punctuation... just write.
It's funny that the whole idea of writing with no one seeing your work to critique or worrying about mistakes has spawned nearly 60 novels that have been published due to this NaNoWriMo. It emphasizes creativity and the whole adventure of just putting together something and writing but in a months time.
I can say having a deadline works wonders. I am by nature a procrastinator and it really helps to see an end to the tunnel. It moves you ,inspires, prods like nothing else. When I was finishing my book "The Lioness" I was also going to school full time. Trying to finish school papers and then write. I was getting up very early to study and finishing up papers very late to go on and stay up into the wee hours to write and finish the book. It was like a cattle prod after my butt that's for sure.
I will end this little piece with a quote I saw earlier this week that I liked. A quote by writer Dorothy Parker. "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
I like that!