2 nights ago I was lying in bed because I had far too much caffiene (read: diet mountain dew) running through my viens and I was wide awake.
A few hours prior to crawling into bed, I had registered for NaBloPoMo and of course, with the mention of NaBloPoMo was the mention of NaNoWriMo (which happens to be the writing marathon that NaBloPoMo is based on).
So, as I’m lying in bed, I think to myself, I have a lot to say. And I crawl back out of bed and grab my notebook and I start jotting topics down. They all have to do with diabetes of course. And so I decided that even though I may not be able to write what would be considered a “novel” I could write 50,000 words about me and diabetes and what I think of it and how it’s affected me and how it’s a terrible disease, blah blah blah.
My moment of insanity lasted through the night onto yesterday morning where I actually went and registered for NaNoWriMo (because I truly am crazy). I think there were 2 things that caused me to seal the deal:
1) “If you believe you’re writing a novel, we believe you’re writing a novel too.”
2) “quantity over quality”
Here’s the thing about me and writing, I hate it. I really do, I vehemently hate writing. It’s the worse thing in the world. The muttering of the words “you need to write a paper” killed me in school, all the way from elementary school through the end of college. Papers made me cry, even when I enjoyed the topic they weren’t easy.
You’re probably settling into a state of deep confusion, because as you read this, you’re probably thinking “she writes, blogging is writing”. You’re right, blogging is writing, but it’s not serious, I mean, it can be, but it’s on the fly, it’s usually not premediated, it’s a dumping of my thoughts. I don’t categorize blogging as writing. And there’s a lot of things that I don’t blog because I don’t want to feel that in my writing my readers can see a vulnerability in me. But there are things that have happened in my 15 years of diabetes that I haven’t written about because they’re emotional, because they scare me, because I was incredibly stupid, all kinds of reasons. NaNoWriMo, is for that, I’m going to write my 50,000 words and much of it will be stuff that I normally wouldn’t blog about, but you know what, it’s time, I’ve been thinking about blogging about some of the stuff I’m going to write about for a few weeks now, and NaNoWriMo just gave me the push I need.
Tomorrow’s the day…writing begins…and if I wasn’t completely insane before the writing began, I will be by the end of Nov…Wanna join me on this journey? You can, here on Ride to Remedy, or on my NaNoWriMo page…
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