For this week’s Haiku Horizons challenge, the prompt was “shift”… I thought I’d approach it in a slightly different way…
Things that you should shift:
Mindset, perspective, gear;
Your ass and do it!
This seems a fairly appropriate way to announce that I’ve signed up for NaNoWriMo – the National Novel Writing Month challenge. It runs throughout November, with the aim being to write 50,000 words for your novel over that time. Yep. Fifty thousand. That’s only about 45,000 more than I’ve ever written on any one thing, ever, in my whole life. No problem, right?
I know Meg’s in as well… anyone else dumb brave enough to join us??
Picture credit: flickr.com/photos/slackpics/4261060942
A Certain Point of View 
I wish I could try, but not this year…I’ll be rooting for you, though!
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Thank you… I’ll need all the cheerleading you’ve got!
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Hahaha! I love the “(dumb) brave enough”
I’m glad you’re doing it. I am afraid I won’t have the time this year either.
Maybe, one day, when writing that story becomes too pressing for me to ignore, I’ll do it. For now, I’ll enjoy your bravery from afar 🙂
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Thank you… hope that time comes when it becomes too pressing for you to ignore too! 🙂
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Love it!
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Cheers Rita ❤
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Lovely.
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Ha, ha! Cute haiku. Congrats on signing up for NaNoWriMo! May the ‘Muse’ be with you.
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Thank you. She’ll need to be a lot quicker about her musery than she is normally! ❤
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Ha, ha! True. 😉
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Nice Haiku! And that challenge sounds fantastic.
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It will certainly be a true challenge! 🙂
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Beset of luck, Al! 😀 I thought of going for it last year but bolted at the last minute…wish you well. Have you done the all important planning? What type of book are you writing? I’m intrigued…50,000 is only ten times the 5,000 words you’ve written before. Easy peasy!! 😃😀 (I’m retreating…)
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Planning… minimal. Not really my style, but need to have some structure in mind! It’s a very slightly supernatural comedy 🙂
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Comedy is right up your alley. Should be interesting. Good-luck, Al.
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Thanks Olga. It will certainly be interesting! 🙂
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Best wishes with the challenge…I’ve not done it before…wondering if I’m dumb or brave enough… 🙂
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If you’re wondering about it, then you’re definitely not dumb enough! 🙂
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I think you’re right–I went to the site and thought, “what the heck am I doing here??” I will not be joining you, but I certainly wish you all the best…and I have started playing with a novel, but I confess the darn blog addiction takes up most of my day 🙂
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I’ve had to scale back the blog… even now it’s still taking hours every day… addiction is the right word!
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Yes, I had to cut some blogs–can’t read and comment to everybody on the planet 🙂
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There’s never enough time to do even a fraction of what we’d like to do… choices everywhere! 🙂
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Yes 🙂
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godspeed on your endeavor…the “anyone else dumb brave enough” sentiment reminded me of Hunter S. Thompson’s take on jackrabbits running out in front of cars on desolate highways…I was about seven when the desire to write a novel kicked in and it has always floated somewhere in brain (sometimes in a dark faraway corner)…my life for the past three and half months has been uprooted, but it appears to have settled down now that it something now you’ve got me considering…thanks?
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The full switch from poetry to longer form is a step into the unknown for me… Or are we all jackrabbits bounding across the freeway?
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i like to say that while necessity is the mother of invention, boredom is the father….for some taking on something like writing a novel is that source for that much desired Adrenaline rush.
“But I have spent enough time in jack rabbit country to know that most of them lead pretty dull lives; they are bored with their daily routines….No wonder some of them drift over the line into cheap thrills once in a while; there has to be a powerful Adrenalin rush in crouching by the side of a road, waiting for the next set of headlights to come along, then streaking out of the bushes with split-second timing and making it across to the other side just inches in front of the speeding front wheels.”
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