6 Pages A Day

Last night at dinner, I was thinking that I need to get involved with something to exercise my brain. I really enjoyed the Write Short, Write Quick writing workshop I took over the summer and thought something like that would do me good.

So while looking up courses on the New Hampshire Writers' Workshop Project I came across an event called the National Novel Writing Month.

If you're interested, you can still sign up as it starts November 1st. So from November 1st to the 30th, the object of the event is to write a 175 page-50,000 word novel in any genre. It doesn't have to be any good. So don't worry about content. The focus is on quantity, not quality. It's a great exercise for people who've always wanted to write a book, but were just too intimidated by the volume of work they'd have to produce. This allows you to dip your foot in the water without having to worry about whether you know how to swim. It's also good for accomplished authors to keep their writing in play when they have writer's block or whatever else is stopping them from writing the next novel.

I have a short story that I wrote for the writing workshop I took and got really good feedback from the other class members who wanted me to write more about it...sort of flesh out the story and reveal more about each of the scenes I wrote about.

If I am to accomplish this task, I'd have to write 6 pages a day.....