Wednesday, October 28, 2009

nanowrimo obsessed

national novel writing month is imminent ... and i have become a bit obsessive ... i follow blog and article threads across the internet to glean every morsel of information out there ... heaven forbid i miss the most important tip ... the one that's going to get me through 50K words (or more!) in a mere 29 days (it's really 30 days, but i hope to have at least one day off) .... 

but ... i shall take a break from my obsessive novel thoughts to show you ... well ... to show you the beautiful journal i'm using right now .... um .... to take notes in for my novel ... ha .....you, yourself should dash off to the nanowrimo site and sign yourself up for some novel writing .. i could use the company! .... it will also explain that in 30 days i won't be DONE with my novel ... just done with my first draft ... or so they say ....
here is another journal .... not beaded and lush like the one above .... it is a plain brown rapper kind of thing .... but it is for a journaling event ... i'll send in back in when i'm done .... to be in a show ... and eventually in a gallery library ....
and they gave me a topic ... yellow submarine ....and here's my first page below .... i think, given the impending novel writing, that i am not going to make this extraordinarily artsy or collagey ... rather ... it will be doodliscious ... more of a sketch book and words ... still artsy ... but with some sharpie love going strong .... 

and, lest you think, i've given up on family life all together (girl.beck. artist has this fear) ... here is our halloweeniness on our porch ... we still need to carve pumpkins ... but this was a fun start for the kids ....
this is my favorite one .... 

so ... what have you got going on in your part of the world? have you carved pumpkins?

4 comments:

artmom said...

maybe young becks should be writing too....especially Girl.beck.artist -joke: in her spare time!!! guess she does write-for the school paper.

Seeing the pink journal makes me want to drop everything and go make some for me!!! maybe when I stop this vounteering business! whenever "they" let me!

mal615 said...

I can't wait 'till Sunday to start writing!

cath c said...

i'm excited about nano, even if with sick family, i'm off to a rough start.

Contessa Kris said...

I did sign up awhile back for the writing site. But almost 2 days later i was having such a block as to what I would even write, now I'm stuck. No ideas. No starts. No brainstorming. Not sure if I'll participate or not. I'll be one of those failures who quits before they even get out the pen! lol

Hoping you have a plan and it works for you.