Are You Ready for November?

We're nearly halfway through October which means one thing: Writing Competitions! Oh yes my friends. As soon as midnight hits, signifying the start of November 1st, it will be time to stop procrastinating and get pen to paper. Obviously, synonymous with November, is National Novel Writing Month. If you haven't tried it out before, the goal of the month is to write a 50,000+ novel by November 30th. That's easy. Averaging about 1,700 words a day is a cake walk. Trust me. If you haven't signed up yet, go to http://nanowrimo.org to get ready.


The second competition of the month is the Writer's Digest Poetic Asides' November Chapbook Challenge. Every day of the month, there is a prompt posted and you have to write a poem based on it. The whole challenge is to finish the month having written thirty poems. Or if you're like me, you can just write a chapbook of poems based on a prompt every day. Yes, I'm talking about writing 30 chapbooks in a month.


So that's where we are. In a matter of less than two and a half weeks, we will be wracking our brains and churning through various sources of inspiration to see what delicious little stories we can put together. I'm excited. It'll be fun. Although honestly, I have no idea what my novel is going to be about. I don't have a title thought of or an idea. I have to start trolling my favorite websites to see what little goodies I can pull out of them.You should do that, too. Look at whatever creative resources you have. If worse comes to worse, read a book by your favorite author. That might spark something. And keep a list of any ideas you have. That way you'll have them all at your disposal when it really matters.