At the end of June, Sam started bemoaning how he needed to start working out more than just twice a week. He'd plateaued on his weight loss over the course of the month and was wanting to kick his butt into gear. Completely understandable. Problem is in the past when we've tried to make a commitment to more exercise or different eating habits or [insert good habit here], we typically do well for a few weeks and then fall off the wagon.
I had the brilliant idea of making a one-month commitment to a goal. As this blog has shown, I can usually force myself to do something for
about a month. A whole year...
not so much, but a month I can handle.
So the last day of June, Sam came home from work and again mentioned a desire to increase his exercise. I found myself saying, "I'll make you a deal."
Deal? What "deal?" You said nothing about a "deal" to us! my inner lazy child started to wail.
"Oh?" was all Sam said, unaware of the internal panic and confusion my words had caused.
"How about for the month of June, you try to exercise every single day. In return, I'll try to write at least 1,000 words a day on a story."
Where did that
come from? my other inner voices wondered, flabbergasted.
How should I know? Y'all are the ones who supply my ideas. Just roll with it, I replied.
(Please don't send those gentlemen in their nice white coats after me. I'm not truly crazy. Promise.)
Sam agreed to this experiment, and I'm now supposed to write a story.
National Novel Writing Month, or
NaNoWriMo for short, occurs in November each year. I learned of it back when I was college, and while I've always been intrigued by it, I've never participated. Partly it's because November is always a crazy busy time in my life. Mostly, however, I just never felt like I had a story to tell.
Well, apparently I'm not the only one who never has time in November but seems to have plenty of time in the summer, so this year they're doing
Camp NaNoWriMo, which I'm trying out. We'll see how it goes. I still don't really have a story of my own to tell, but I'm enjoying my foray regardless. If everything goes well, I may even share it on this blog once it's completed.
Or not.
Either way, we'll see how this turns out. Currently I'm right on target for hitting 50,000 by the end of the month--providing I do today's 1,500 this afternoon. Onward and upward!
Total Words: 11,680
Total Words: 13,062
