The Rough Draft Challenge – NaNoWriMo is dead, long live NaNoWriMo.
NaNoWriMo?
So, last year, as I was gearing up for NaNoWriMo as an impetus to do the thing, I posted my word counts on various projects. That did not work out so well, as everything went off the rails. I have written very little in the last year, as things got a little crazy around here with health and general life challenges. However, it’s all about honesty and accountability. Right?
In that light, some stuff went down surrounding NaNo last year that I kind of missed in my absence. I’m not sorry, but I am kind of looking for a writing community, whatever it wants to call itself. I liked that part a lot, even when I came nowhere close to the goals I set for myself.
Despite the current controversary surrounding NaNoWriMo, in all of the years I have followed the thing, I have always saw it more as a spirit/idea than an organization. It feels so culturally ingrained for me. I can appreciate that it is becoming an occurrence outside of an organization, because to me it always was. NaNo always was an event that we participated in, within the writing communities, like Inktober.
Rough Draft Challenge
This year, I am thinking of connecting to The Heart Breathings Writing Community and The Rough Draft Challenge.
Both my word count, and expected word count have gone up since last year, if not by much. I have done a lot of rewriting and reorganization to give myself a sold foundation to rock this thing this year. Even though some parts of my notes and outline are currently empty, I am very invested in doing this.
I am the weird ADHD combination of a ‘plotter’ and a ‘pantser’, when it comes to writing, or, well, anything. Clear guidelines and expectations are required for complicated tasks, so I can figure out if I am in the mood to follow them or not. (Ask me about cooking or baking some time.) I want to know there is a path to return to even if I detour on a side quest.
