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Fiction Writers, November Is Yours
Time to revive your Covid-crushed creativity with NaNoWriMo
In a year that doesn’t seem real, writing fiction is tough
At least it has been for me, and I’m sure I’m not alone. Back in March when life was upended and we were all sent to our rooms and told to stay there, our brains kicked into emergency mode. Waiting for the next shoe to drop or if the world is ending is great if you’re reading suspense, but it’s not the ideal mindset for writing stories into being.
Early on in the spring, memes circulated that encouraged writers to use their new time at home to write the Next Big Thing . . . after all, Shakespeare wrote King Lear during the plague. Such exhortations were decidedly unhelpful (as well as historically questionable).
Personally, after six months I began to wonder if I’d ever produce anything new, fiction-wise. It felt like a tough crust had formed between my imagination and whatever part of my mind usually has access to it.
NaNoWriMo to the rescue!
If perchance you haven’t heard of NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month, it’s high time you did. The goal is to write an entire novel — or at least 50,000 words of one — within the month of November. It…
