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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

IWSG: NaNoWriMo

It’s time for another group posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group! founded by Alex J. Cavanaugh. Time to release our fears to the world – or offer encouragement to those who are feeling neurotic. If you’d like to join us, click on the tab above and sign up. We post the first Wednesday of every month. Your words might be the encouragement someone needs. You can also join us on twitter using the hashtag #IWSG, or on the Facebook page.

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NOVEMBER 1 QUESTION - 
November is National Novel Writing Month. Have you ever participated? If not, why not?

MY ANSWER - I participated a couple of times several years ago. While the process is interesting and I believe it's beneficial to some, the process just never worked out for me. I always seem to have a family emergency in November. Four years in a row now an immediate family member ended up in the hospital in November. So, NaNoWriMo fell by the wayside each time. Right now, it's not feasible for me to try again. I'm working full-time (two jobs) so I cannot dedicate the time this month.

How about you? Have you ever participated. Are you this year? Why?

3 comments:

Natalie Aguirre said...

I've never tried NaNo, but I already know it's not for me. And it would be hard to finish when you have a job or two jobs like you.

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

Hopefully no family emergency this month!

Karen Baldwin said...

I tried several times but didn't really accomplish much accept writing 50,000 words that ended up nowhere.
So it's a no for me this year. And praying noi family emergency this year.