A month of writing

It’s both National Novel Writing Month and National Blog Posting Month (in what nation I’d like to know since these are both international events at this point – when do we get to use International rather than always defaulting to the US?) I’ve committed myself to the 50,000 words that it takes to complete NANOWRIMO and have got off to a start this morning with 120 words so far! But can I also commit to posting something on this blog every day in the month? We’ll see, I’m not as committed to that but surely I can come up with some quip or quote every day. I’m trying to kickstart my writing process a little bit and for the first year in a long time I’m not too busy to participate. So let’s see how this goes.

To start out with a quote from Rilke that has resonated with me lately – “if one feels one could live without writing, then one shouldn’t write at all”. Agreed. Agreed.