Writer's Block

Today is the first day of NaNoWriMo, and I am already stuck! My original plan was to write something autobiographical. This was my hubby's suggestion as he would love to read it and learn more about my life before him. So I sat down this morning and began writing. I got to 609 words before I got stuck! What a boring life I must have! After re-reading what I had already written, I decided to restart with a different idea.

So far, this is what I have done to avoid writing:

• checked my email
• checked my facebook account
• worked on my internship application- which is actually important!
• searched through every drawer and pile of papers for a writing sample to include with my internship application- fortunately I did find one.
• thought about starting my resume and cover letter- but have not actually started those either.
• read some blogs
• organized my homework
• planted garlic
• dug out my vegetable garden plans and organized them in a binder
• checked my class website and thought about doing homework
• organized my homework into piles
• found my flash drive and reformatted it
• searched for my camera to upload photos
• posted on my blog

So that's it. Its already 15 hours into NaNoWriMo and I haven't written a damn thing!

Countdown to NaNoWriMo! - 7 days to go

For those of you who don't know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to hunker down, drink ungodly amounts of coffee and write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.


From scratch.


In 30 days.

What am I thinking?

I've been thinking about participating in NaNoWriMo for the past year now and I have decided to do it this year. Because I need even more stuff to do.


I received my copy of the NaNoWriMo yesterday and am getting rather excited about writing my first draft of a novel. I've always wanted to write one but I hate my writing. I figured that this would be a good chance to just do it. Even though I don't have a plot, storyline, characters or any of those other things that one would expect in a novel. I do have lots of coffee and not so much free time though.



But, as Ernest Hemingway once said, "The first draft of anything is shit."


Wish me luck!