NaNoWriMo Newbie

I honestly hadn’t heard of NaNoWriMo before I started blogging at the end of November last year.

I am reluctant to join in on the fun because, well, life gets in the way of goals sometimes. And I can be my worst critic when I don’t achieve my goals…

That being said, since I have never done it before, and I know that I CAN write 50,000 words in a month, I thought I would give it a shot.

I’m picking up and dusting off a story I had started about ten years ago (there are many of those!). I had nicknamed it “Modern Jane Austen or Little Women,” as it follows four sisters in the 2010s who are ages 16-22 and are concerned about their matrimonial fates in a Jane Austen type of way.

However, it takes place in New England, like Little Women does, and is very New Englandy (I grew up in MA).

The title is TBD, but the characters are very defined and only partly based off of myself and my sister (I have seven) and the girly silliness that ensued growing up.

It is part comedy, part romance, part drama.

Will anyone ever read it? I don’t know. But it is a story that has been inside me for a long time, and perhaps now is a good time to put the rest of it down on paper.

So, here is me putting this out there: I will add 50,000 words to this story by November 30.

How about you, other Nano writers? What are you working on?