The WriMo Epidemic

I need another WriMo event like I need another hole in my head. Yet, here I am doing a May NaBloPoMo. In other words, National Blog Posting Month. It occurred to me that I am neglecting my blogs horribly since I started working from home a couple of months ago. NaBloPoMo gives me the opportunity to get into a good bloggerly habit. Besides, NaNoWriMo is such a huge part of my life now, that I think of most things in terms of WriMos, ArtMos, WorkMos, etc. ;o)

Plus, I need to talk about writerly projects before my muses jump off a tall building and succumb to a horrible, creative death. Because - PROJECTS! I HAZ 'DEM!

A couple of years ago I participated in Script Frenzy. Valuable lesson learned in 2007: scripting is most definitely not my genre. But, I did walk away with a great idea for a non-fiction book. That idea has evolved and has now come around full circle. I'm currently writing a non-fic about the muses (which makes them proud as punch) and decided to share with everyone the secret of discovering their own muses.

The craziest part of all is that I am in the middle of outlining the book. I'm a pantser - whaaa?!? Fiction comes easily for me. It's as if the muses are busy writing entire books in my head long before I ever sit down to a computer to type out my thoughts. Non-fiction though needs to be organized a little differently--with more detail and forethought, and that isn't something I'm proficient at (yet). I'm using 2 books to help me with this process (and they will be included in the bibliography for sure!): Karen S. Wiesner's First Draft in 30 Days and Victoria Lynn Schmidt's Book in a Month. I don't necessarily intend to write Pocket Muses in that short of a time...although the muses are pretty fired up about it right now.

Not only that, I am doing an ArtMo every month this year. (The artsy muses need some time in the sun too.) I set some ambitious goals for May.

My mind is already wandering over to July too. JulNoWriMo. I failed hard at this challenge last year. I think I only wrote about 20,000 words. Since the rules are a little looser in July than in November, I'm playing with the idea of continuing two works-in-progress. This year, I fully intend to win!

By August I'll need to be getting a marketing plan in place for the Peoria WriMos...because I will be an ML again this year. Though, I hope to have an energetic and capable co-ML too, so I can pass the torch in 2010.

I need more WorkMo progress right now. I'll be back to blog tomorrow! =)