I know it has been a while since I’ve written here, and I will explain that eventually, but as we’re approaching November, I thought I would explain my plan for NaNoWriMo this year.
To acknowledge the elephant in the room, the non-profit organization that ran the official NaNoWriMo website has been closed down. This year, I am using a program called “Novel November”, but for all intents and purposes, I am going to refer to it as NaNoWriMo.
Truthfully, I’ve been struggling to write. Balancing my education and my chronic illnesses has been rough, to say the least. We can get into that at a later time, though. I did have a plan to continue working on the novel I started last November, but truthfully, the outline for that project has been slow going. I didn’t want to force it, but I do love that project and will definitely return to it at some point. Then, about a week before the beginning of November, in a moment of what can only be described as artistic passion, I decided I was going to take an idea for a novel, and have it relatively plotted by the beginning of November. As I’m sure you can imagine, that did not work very well, so I’ve had to shift my plans for the month, since I don’t have a novel outline to work with.
So, what does this mean for NaNoWriMo 2025? I’ve decided to do something that just encourages me to write every day, which is what I need right now. My plan is just to write fifty thousand words this month, across as many projects as I need it to be. I don’t care if it’s poetry, outlining, short stories, or actual novel chapters. I just want to write. You would think that wanting to write so badly would mean that I would be chomping at the bit to sit down at my keyboard and grind out thousands of words. As much as I desperately want that, I am truthfully struggling to write, even when I want nothing more than to write.
I will be kind of working backwards from this point over the course of November to show you all what I’ve been up to. I mean, I published a poetry collection, and there are some things in the works right now. I’m excited to share my current WIPs, and part of me is hoping that describing my ideas will get me excited to work on them again.
So, NaNoWriMo is going to look very different for me this year. It’ll technically not be a novel challenge for me this year, but it’s still going to be fifty thousand words, and I think that’s what matters to me.
That's all for now, folks!
-C
