Pencil Us In

So I know you are all still trying to catch your breath. Blogging A to Z was AMAZING, but also exhausting, in a lot of ways... and then there is all the neglected stuff last month... it will take a little while to get back on our feet. That is to be expected... but while you are planning your next steps... There is a big event next month that I don't want you to miss.

Last year The Burrow, my writer's group, decided that November sort of sucked as the chosen month for a WriMo... Part of us are teachers, part are students, and part work retail... Several of us are also MOMS... November just has a lot of demands, so we decided on a Do-Over... In June...

We were amazed at the response. We hadn't been all that 'out there' at that point. My own blog was less than a year old and I think I had maybe 150 followers. I know my counter registered 200 hits a day on average (I average about 3 times that now and have MORE than 3 times the followers) But besides that, after BuNoWriMo, we launched our group blog...

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Whatever the case... we invited all of you to join us. We held the WriMo on Facebook because our extensive research led us to know to participate, people would have to join SOMETHING, and most people had a Facebook account already, so joining a group was just a click.

And we had 108 people join! It was a bit baffling, really...

But this year, we are hoping for even bigger...

So what IS BuNoWriMo? The Burrow Novel Writing Month.

When: The 30 days in June.

What: Write at least 50,000 words in the 30 days of June.

How: Very similar rules as NaNoWriMo... The traditional version means you can't start until June 1 and you write 'a whole book' (50,000 words worth anyway) in the month, but like NaNoWriMo, rebels are welcome... rebels would be people who continue on an already started WiP, people who write collections of shorts or non-fiction, people who want to set their OWN rules... It really just just a support system for a fast paced writing month.

What we DISCOURAGE is editing as you go. The point of writing fast is to let go of that inner editor so you can get the WORK done. Rewriting can come LATER.

(thank you, Rosie, for sending this!)

If you are interested in joining us, just go here  and join... that simple... then you will get the updates via facebook message (about weekly this month, maybe twice a week in June—we won't clog your inbox)

But for NOW: tie up those loose ends! Do whatever outlining or character sketching you like to accomplish pre-writing... get that brain going on your novel idea...

And resign yourself to the fact that when I am part of the planning committee, you will often hear you need to just get naked...

I love yibus!