November 1st to November 30th
National Novel Writing Month takes place.
I want to write something, but I am still working on the one I started two years ago.
I love the idea. I love the idea of writing a novel in thirty days and then refining it. My 8th grade English teacher, Ms. DiNubile, amazing teacher, quit the profession early in her career. She taught me that writing isn't writing, it is re-writing. I have lived my writing life by that one thing this fantastic teacher taught me. I still remember the first thing I ever wrote in her class. It was a short paragraph entitled the Kuddly Koala. I learned about alliteration and how to have a topic sentence and to make the end of the paragraph come in full circle.
Today, I celebrate her. Teachers may get negative publicity and there are many things wrong with the public education system, but great teachers never get the praises they should because so often their contribution is quietly appreciated and accepted. My love of writing came before I met her, but she definitely gave me the tools to make it better.
I hope I get to participate in NaNoWriMo this month. I am trying real hard today to come up with an idea!
I agree about the need to cheer the good teachers. Good luck in trying to write a novel in 30 days.
ReplyDeleteHeidi, not really writing a novel. Just writing for 30 days. Get 50,000 words down on paper and then edit, rewrite, etc. It is virtually impossible to write a novel in 30 days unless you are Stephen King ;-)
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