Day #1 of NaNoWriMo!!

Yikes! What have I got myself into??!

Fun…that’s what I am participating this year (along with both of the kids). In order to not overwhelm them, we’ve decided to postpone reading/writing assignments. Well, not all of them of course. Fox will be relieved of his 30 minutes a day reading from his list and Lee will take November off from Excellence in Literature (just as soon as she finishes one more assignment).

I was sitting down just now to see how many credits I can count toward Lee’s high school transcript. I decided that each year will be worth 1/4 credit; by senior year she will have 2 credits toward Creative Writing. Since NaNoWriMo is only for the month of November she really can only spend up to 60 hours (if she spends 2 hours a day on it) on the entire ‘course’. That would be 1/2 credit. I will of course wait until the end of the month to figure the true number of credits to be awarded.

For those doing NaNoWriMo, there is a free software that lets you have ‘distraction free writing’. It’s called Pangurpad. I’d never heard of it but since it is provided to participants, I thought I would use it to see if it will help me to stay with my writing this time. (But I will point out that since this is the first day and I’m not well organized already, I may not use it…not sure lol)

Thanks to the question posed by Michelle (from A Life Better Than I Deserve), I will be blogging our way through NaNoWriMo. Check back next Tuesday for our first post

Are you participating in NaNoWriMo this year? Have you started??