A few days ago a fellow forumite (and published author) on Broken Forum solicited invitations to join him in taking part in Camp NaNoWriMo. This is basically National Novel Writing Month done in July, with looser rules and a summer camp theme, including but not limited to putting people into cabins and where you can share spooky stories around the virtual campfire about how your muse left you frightened and out of ideas.
Since being invited to a cabin requires a project, I slapped in my failed 2013 NaNo effort, Start of the World (one of the worst working titles I’ve ever devised). I don’t know if I’ll actually try reviving it but I only have one more day to mull it over before the writing begins, so the suspense won’t last long.
It may turn out that Camp NaNoWriMo is just the thing I need. Or it could be another dismal petering-out. Or it could even be both.
Mostly I think I’m going to get up on July 1st, revel briefly in being Canadian, then spend the rest of the day shifting between writing paralysis and spewing out nonsense that sees me getting intimate with the backspace and delete keys (or on the Mac, the delete and other delete key–what’s up with that, anyway?)
Stay tuned for exciting and/or painful updates soon™.
