by Peggy Bechko
Holy crap it is Nov. and it’s that month NANOWRIMO – which affects just about everything writing whether we want to talk about that or not. Novelists to be, yes, all other writers, yes. It’s a bug that bites – a time of year that get the writer in everyone so inclined all antsy to DO something, stare at deadlines in horror and just plain fling themselves into the air with vibrating intensity – and yes that includes me.
I write novels. I write scripts. I even jumped into writing a comic book series. Am I crazy? You betcha! (pardon my use of that word, I couldn’t help myself, it’s that vibrating to distraction thing). But here’s the thing. How do I know the above? Well, as a general rule blog posts on writing get many more hits in October and November and sales of books about writing, all kinds of writing, pretty much do a spike. Come on , you can admit it, you bought a book on screenwriting, or novel writing or copywriting or did some online searches recently on writing. Yep, it’s that magical time of the year.
I hear you. You can’t help it. It’s something in the air. Maybe it’s because the year is about to end and you haven’t met your writing goals, maybe you’ve got big, scary deadlines (you should be so lucky), maybe it’s that whole Nanowrimo thing – you know National novel writing month. (And despite the ‘novel’ thing, yes, this includes you other types of writers – it’s contagious.)