NaNoWriMo is nearly here!

NaNoWriMo is nearly here! If the acronym is unfamiliar then you may not have heard about "National Novel Writing Month", in which participants write a 175 page (50,000 word) novel by midnight, November 30.

The concept has been round for at least 10 years, and has been adapted to become NaDisWriMo - for people wanting to finished academic dissertations.

For me, I'm going non-fiction. Inspired by my friend Wendy Davie's success in producing her first book - The Accidental Organiser, I'm going to aim to follow in her footsteps, and produce a draft of a book - or at least write 50,000 words.

The WriMo concept is a great one, and fits in really well with Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan's Artist's Way and Artist's Way at Work principles (in fact I wouldn't be surprised if the idea was borne of an Artist's Way course).

I also plan to establish a new "Creative Cluster" in Christchurch for people who want to work the Artist's Way together, in the New Year.

Care to join me?

in response to economic pessimism...

"Always leave room in your life to do something that makes you feel happy, satisfied, even joyous.   That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor"

Paul Hawken