Patrick Says

You may have noticed recently that two new badges have appeared over in the sidebar. If you read this through a feed, you’d have no idea, but they are there. I have opted, once again this year, to participate in two big writing events.

The first is National Novel Writing Month. It’s the dream of writing a 50,000+ word novel. I have a plot in mind and I’m going to try and meet up with the others in Saint Louis doing this. There’s a meet-up this Saturday I’m trying to get to if I can secure a sitter. I tried this last year and well, it didn’t go so well.

But I’ll try again and maybe I can do better. One idea I have is to disable the spell checker and use a monstrous font while creating. The reasoning for this is that too often, I try to edit as I’m writing. With huge text and no spelling errors highlighted, I can focus on churning out copy. I’ll edit in December if I succeed.

The other project in November is National Blog Posting Month. A far easier task, the goal is to post at least one every day in November. I completed this one last year and even won a prize. I’m thinking of contributing a prize this year, but still participating as well.

Anyway, wish me luck and check back here for progress all next month!

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