Oct 29 2008
NanoWriMo in Our Homeschool
I thought I would take this opportunity to announce that we are participating in the YW NanoWriMo program this year. So what is the YW NanoWriMo program? It is the Young Writers program for National Novel Writing Month, which is in November.
As a writer I participated in the adult program last year. I didn’t get too many words written. Only a couple hundred or so. So this year I planned on participating again and completing the 50,000 words in 30 days challenge. I wanted to be one of the winners. The best way I could accomplish this feat was to involve my son. If it was schoolwork, then I would have to be the good example and do my project.
When I signed him up for the Young Writers portion, I was able to set his word count to an age appropriate level. Since this is his first time, we negotiated the word count to 8,000 words. He is excited to try his hand at writing his own novel. We will work on editing his story in December. (And mine, of course!)
I’ll post updates on our progress throughout the month of November. It should be a fun project for both of us, albeit a challenging one.
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*bows to you* Dear God….. okay, one more bow… *bows to you*. NanoWriMo is wild. Intimidating. I applaud you for taking it on like that. With my work schedule, I’m pretty certain I could never finish my novel in one month–unless I never ate, slept or interacted with the human race.