I think I’ve pretty much drawn a circle around my theme for NaPoWriMo this year. I found it helpful last year to have a theme. Sometimes the words went outside it too, but I tried to keep something within it each day. Last year the theme was related to my somewhat-stuck NaNoWriMo story and it did help me get a sense of a mindset and an idea for nudging it ahead. Hopefully, this year’s theme will be my personal nudge when prompts and things don’t light up my brain. As always, the secondary goal will be to share publicly each day and haiku will be scattered throughout as needed.
Lest you think that these are small pockets of people, keep your eyes open on the web and you’ll see hints and allegations that there are many people scribbling and typing away a month at a time. April is also the first round of Camp NaNoWriMo which is a little more free-form version of the November event. Here you can set your own genre, your own word count goal and still have the fun of beating the clock.
And on that note, I saw this from Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and more:
doctorow: Here’s the four pieces of flash fiction I wrote in 5 mins. each at #Eastercon http://t.co/UqyUx652tr
this followed close behind from Paul Cornell:
Paul_Cornell: At noon I’ll be playing competitive flash fiction against @RozKaveney @EmApocalyptic and @Doctorow! Hoping to score a point. At some point.
and then:
Paul_Cornell: I scored a point at the flash fiction! First time ever! @EmApocalyptic won, the rest of us came second.
Which just goes to show you that sometimes word geeks just wanna have fun and do it doing what they love.
