Removing stuff

I am removing things from my schedule, including my nanowrimo. It makes me sad, since it was going to be such a great book. But I do not have time. No time to do anything. It is the end of the semester, and I am getting that wall-of-panic mentality that is coming out in everything I do. That is all.

NaNoWriMo

Often when I am at my busiest, I feel the strongest need to spend time creating something. Usually that means playing the piano, but sometimes, when I have the time and motivators, it means writing. There is this thing called National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, when anyone can undertake a challenge of writing an entire novel in one month. This amounts to about 3 pages per day, if one writes every single day. I have wanted to do NaNoWriMo for years now, but I've never gotten around to it. Well, based on a Facebook conversation with my writing group, I have decided to do NaNoWriMo this month. So I started a novel today. I am a little behind, since it is the 4th already, but I hope to catch up. In order to maintain motivation, I am including a little widget here on this blog. That way, everyone who reads this blog (all two of you, or so) will know exactly where I'm at with this little novel. I guess I could tell you a little bit about it. I was planning to write a post-apocalyptic version of the Queen Esther story, but it is already getting away from me a little, and now it might morph into something else entirely. I never am very good at controlling where my stories go. Oh well.