#NanoPoblano2024 Day 1 – National Blog Posting Month

It’s November, long-time host to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a challenge taken on by hundreds of thousands of writers to complete the first draft of a 50K-word novel in 30 days. I started it a few times, came up with a couple killer first paragraphs, but only completed it once.

I often have a subterranean panic attack when I sit down to write. On 11/1/2015 I had an empty mind, no ideas whatsoever, and thought to combat the panic by using this Storymatic collection of 540-character, situation, and object cards.

These are the cards I drew:

I didn’t stop to think, just plunged in and free-wrote into an abyss that was a hurricane hitting Pensacola Beach with these two characters. I ended the month with a 53,200-word hell of a mess, but it was so much fun to write. Someday I may edit it into a long short story.

But I digress. This post is actually about November 1 as the start of National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo).

As with most things, I came to blogging a dozen years after its heyday. I’m not organized; I don’t have a theme. Such is the state of my brain. This month will be a mishmash of images, poetry, reflective essay snippets, maybe a short story spread across a few days. Here’s the link to what I did last November. https://wordsforabetterworld.org/blog/

I know everything I write won’t resonate with everyone, but maybe a nugget here or there will register with some of you. Thanks in advance for any reading you do.

#NanoPoblano2024 is the tag for our group of bloggers, the Cheer Peppers. You can find links to the rest of our team’s writing here: https://cheerpeppers.wordpress.com/2024-team/ It’s an eclectic group of writers and artists producing interesting work.