Hello everyone! I know I dropped off rather suddenly mid-NaNoWriMo last year. Unfortunately, since I started this blog, my family has gotten smaller. As one may expect, this disrupted my life rather dramatically.
I have started getting the itch again. Most anyone who writes knows the itch I'm talking about. It's the compulsion to write. The need to put pen to paper or fingers to a keyboard. For me, the itch takes the form of a story or character that keeps running around and around in my mind. I realized that NaNoWriMo is not the only writing race in town. Or rather, November is not the only month they put on a race. Apparently, they also organize summer camps and call them Camp NaNoWriMo. Twice over the summer, once in June and once in August, they set up similar challenges. You use your same log in for camp as you used in November. There are a few differences. You have the option of joining a virtual cabin, people who are also participating in the challenge who can help encourage you. There is still a tracker of how many words you write a day. It is an interesting little project.
I decided to join the June camp a little over a week into it. I don't really have a story line, I just have a need to get something out. I'm reasonably sure I'm so far behind that I'll never meet the deadline, but it will be interesting to participate anyway. I'll keep posting here about my adventures in writing. Stay tuned!
