Happy November 1st, everyone.
Each year, I participate in an event called National Novel Writing Month (or “nanowrimo” for “short”). Much like the zero waste challenge, this annual tradition has a definitive monthly goal I try to meet: Write a 50,000 word story in 30 days. That’s about the size of Catcher in the Rye.
For those of you who hate math, I’ll have to write approximately 1,667 words per day.
As a habitual writer of blogs, comics, short stories, and poems, I usually hit that word count in one way or another, but it’s much harder for me to spend that many words every day for 30 days on the same story. I’m gonna be spending a lot of time and effort accomplishing this goal until November is over.
As a result, you may notice a drop in blog production on The Zero Waste Bystander compared to what I’ve produced in the last few weeks of October. I will try and put out a few this month, including one tomorrow where I reveal how I did with my monthly mason jar of waste. Fair warning: these blogs will probably be much shorter and less involved than the epics I’ve written so far. I’m sorry if this news disappoints you and I can only hope that you’ll stick it out with me until I come back like a hurricane this December.
Thank you guys–seriously, thank you so much–for reading my blogs about this weird zero waste adventure and just generally taking an interest in my new habits and rants. It’s amazing to feel your support through the madness.
Talk to y’all soon.
P.S. You can follow my Nanowrimo progress here.