NaNoWriMo this Spring!

I just joined Camp NaNoWriMo!  Yah, I love art and writing and cello music and dogs - what could make a life better than all those things?  Well, how about having a few of YOU join me at Camp??  My Camp name is jaymethunt and I'm writing a fantasy fiction book.  I really enjoy magic, dragons, fairies, and all that; but I also have a strong love of battles, too.

http://pixabay.com/en/book-love-the-reading-romanticism-58942/

y favorite author is Robert Jordan, who is now deceased, but like JRR Tolkein, he wrote books that are just GREAT stories, full of characters you want to root for and help win.  You cry when they don't and you bawl your head off when one of them dies.  THOSE are great stories.

Do you have a great (or even a good or not-so-good) story inside of you?  Want to join me at Camp and write with me?  You have to be 13 or older to attend camp this year.  They don't have a camp for younger authors in the spring yet.  But if you're younger than 13, you can start preparing now for YWP NaNoWriMo!  Just because you can't actually get to writing your novel now (and still get credit for your story for NaNo), doesn't mean you can't do a few things now, like:

• Write your outline
• Write a few stories that you're not going to enter into NaNo, as warm-ups!
• Read about the snowflake method to get a story written
• Peruse Plinky to get some ideas for a story you never even considered writing

ost people try to reach the recommended fifty thousand words for the month.  I've tried that and just not been able to hit it.  I've tried for a couple of years now.  November is just too busy for me!  So, I thought I'd give it another shot in April (though you can also try in June) and set my goal at thirty thousand words.  It's *just* 1000 words per day, right?  I can do that.  I think.  Hehehe.  Maybe I can only do it if I get to count all my blogging (personal one at jaymehunt.com and this one) and ATCsJr.com posts...  I know I write that much daily right now.  The trick will be to do it all without dropping the ball on ATCsJr and my own site!  Last year, I did drop the ball on my site and this one was just beginning again, so it doesn't really count.  Hehehe.

Oh, yah.  I'm using this tool to get it done:  http://scriffon.com

Anyway, consider this a personal invitation from me to you to write a novel in April!  Hope to see you there...


ey!  We should just pick a month and call it NaATCMo.  lol.

NaNoWriMo Starts in just 3 1/2 days!

The first question I always get asked when I reference NaNoWriMo is, "What's that?"  The person asking the question generally has sort of a scrunched up skeptical look on their face, as if they've just heard that they're going to eat 25 lemons in a cold shower to win a prize.

The look I get from them is *the best.*  I have to admit that I toss the "word" out there pretty regularly, just to see their expression.  In fact, just thinking about all you who are reading this and the look on your face is making me chuckle.

NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month.  I think they hold it in November because it goes with the NaNo part and it's an easy mnemonic sort of thing.

I'm not just writing about this because it's cool, though.  I'm writing because it's cool AND they've got a kids' version of it.  NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program is awesome, too!  The kids get to make their own word challenge and they can dare others, as well.  I think the dare thing is pretty cool, personally.

So, what do you get if you hit your word-count goal?

• Five copies of your book, in paperback!  (You have to pay shipping, though...)
• An official Web Badge & Certificate
• Bragging rights for the rest of your life.

If you're worried that you'll fall flat on your face, there are lots of support systems on their website already, and here's a blog post about what they've improved for this year!

Put your creative thinking caps on and go to!  Go to!