jumping on the nano train

[daniwithtea]

to paraphrase the cranberries, everybody else is doing it, so why can't I?

of all the months this year, november promises to be the busiest, craziest, stress-inducing month. i suck at writing on command - i failed a semester of english in high school because our entire grade was based on in-class writing assignments. i don't know what to write about. of course, some part of me (the masochistic part, i'm sure) wants to do this.

so, what to write about? cooking seems the most obvious choice. bipolar and chronic pain seem too depressing. i suppose i could write my life as a soap opera - except no one would believe it, either as fiction or non-fiction. especially my high school years.

thoughts from the peanut gallery

ETA: what about kitchen witchery? the transfer of energy into food, that sort of thing?

Comments

[ladypoetess.livejournal.com]

No clue. I'm wrestling with the same crap myself. Writing what you know seems to be the best choice.

Fictionalize yourself - not necessarily as a soap opera, but maybe as a kind of daily commentary type thing. A lesbian with chronic pain problems who makes her living as a chef, and the running monologue she has in her head as she goes through the day? Has great comedic potential, I think. Then again, comedy may not be your thing.

[darkest-mind.livejournal.com]

** i suppose i could write my life as a soap opera - except no one would believe it, either as fiction or non-fiction. especially my high school years. **

coming from someone who lived it with you.. I can tell you that no one would believe the truth of our high school years. lol They'd be all "now who the hell would buy all this melodramatic bullshit??"

I like the idea of kitchen witchery.. or the above idea about making your life into a story. How ARE you on comedy by the way? I KNOW how you are/were on DRAMA.... lol

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

like the kitchen witchery one; but you could just write about cooking in general, it would be cool to read.

I got my blog to do a NaNo like thing, but I need to get back to it, to writing about my herb stuff.