Last year I participated in NaBloPoMo. It is part creative writing event, blogging mania, and a fun competition (yes, there are gifts to win) all wrapped in one.
The NaBloPoMo challenge asks bloggers to write a blog post every day this month. As a returnee, I want to share with all the newbies some advice about how to survive and find your writing wings and soar in the next weeks:
View this month as an opportunity to write stories that have never come to (virtual) paper and share them with an appreciative audience.
Pay attention to the mundane day-to-day occurrences in your life and make them come alive to your readers. The participators/readers are from every corner of the earth: your normal is their exotic.
Spend time reading other NaBloPoMo blogs and commenting. The feeling of camaraderie is infectious, and even, at times, inspirational.
If you stumble upon a good post or blog, share it with others.
That’s it. Good luck to (us) you all!
Good luck to you. For some reason NaBloPoMo feels intimidating to me. But then I'm doing NaNoWriMo. I'd never attempt both.
ReplyDeleteI guess writing a novel feels easiert because I don't have to show it to anybody.
(And now I have write another 700 words to fill my quota...