Last year, I engaged in a crazy thirty days of writing frenzy along with a few hundred thousand of my closest friends, and I actually got a novel written thanks to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
Now that I've fiuled "Blood Iron Cross" under "do something with this some day!", I've decided that I like writing very much. I would like to do some more of it in hopes of one day doing it well. So, instead of giving this blog the name of one novel, I've changed it to encompass all and future creative ventures. "Camp Wanderlust" is... an interesting title (at least, to me).
The title may seem odd, so a word of explaination: You see, I used to keep notebooks full of moody and dark poetry and some story ideas, and the title of my favorite one was "Wanderlust." This is because I had terrible wanderlust, wandering all over the woods near my home, and all about. I always felt driven to see what was over the next ridge from Ridge Road. That inspired the poetry and story ideas, so, "Wanderlust" seemed like a good name for my blog. Alas, many others thought the same, so it was quite unavailable for a blog title. Also, Project: Wanderlust was taken. So, why not go to camp? After all, this is a bit of a retreat... a vacation, right?
Well, really what this IS is a caffinated frenzy that you layer onto your already zany life with responsibilities to job, children and wife that are still going to be there through these thirty days in November when you will be writing a novel with hundreds of thousands of other people who support each other online and in gatherings called "Write-ins" (this, by the way, is a run-on sentence, and a writing no-no most of the time... but, sometimes they can be fun).
So... care to join/pray for/heckle me as I dive into NaNoWriMo 2013? If you are participating, find BlueJago if you need a writing buddy.
I'll share more of this year's project, soon. The only thing I'll say is that my two children have agreed to be my assistant editors this year.
Cheers!
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