no nanowrimo this year

i don’t think i realized how much this would bum me out.

today marks the beginning of national novel writing month (or nanowrimo for short). i have “participated” for the last 3 years, but last year was the first year i managed to pull of 50K words in 30 days on a single storyline.

this year, for obvious reasons, i will not be participating. i figured by this point i’d be hip-deep in baby or baby preparation that i would even notice until sometime in february or march that i’d missed it, but i’m not. a little nagging voice plagued me all day today pointing out that i might have upwards of 7 days to write with literally *nothing* else to do with my time. i could get a lot done in that time. maybe not all 50k, but a decent chunk that would be very satisfying. even if the baby comes early (and we all hope she does), that’s still a few days of happy writing time.

and it’s soooo tempting. the other main hurdle is that i’m woefully out of practice. i haven’t written any more than i’ve read this year, and my brain is so full of baby stuff that i can’t imagine clearing it enough to pluck a story out, much less try to get it out on paper.

like some other lingering “to do”’s , it’ll probably just nag away in the back of my mind until it’s too late to do anything about it :)