NoBoPro anybody?
I’m thinking ahead to November, because there’s already a ton of NaNoWriMo prep stuff on my dash here and other social media. And honestly I’m trying not to feel down or like a failure because I know there’s no way I can participate, no matter how much I’d like to. I don’t know about y’all, but I don’t have the time or the energy (mental or otherwise) to write nearly 1700 words per day. I work full-time (often with overtime) and I struggle with depression, both of which sap my creative energy. It’s just not going to happen.
What I do have, though, is a truly absurd number of notebooks. There’s a lot of thick journals in there, but most of them are the slim insert types used in midori-style traveler’s notebooks. I’m terrible about writing regularly and I hoard stationary like a true dragon, so they tend to accumulate faster than I use them up, but I think I’ve found a solution.
See, while bopping about the stationary/pen/writing corners of the Internet I came across this post about the Notebook Project, or NoBoPro, which started as an alternative to NaNoWriMo. The idea is simple: fill up a notebook by the end of the month. Any size, any number of pages, any topic, poetry, prose, doesn’t matter.
Most of my insert-type notebooks are 60 pages or fewer. That’s two A5 pages (one page front-and-back) per day. That’s a lot more feasible than 50,000 words. So I think I might do this instead of NaNoWriMo, both to try to get back in the habit of writing regularly and to set a more attainable goal for myself.
So I’m wondering, does this sound like something anyone else would be interested in? I mean, I’m probably going to do it regardless. I’m just wondering if anybody else would like an alternative to NaNoWriMo, and if this particular idea piques anybody’s interest. I can’t promise I’d be able to come up with a list of prompts or anything, but if other people are interested maybe we could all use a common tag and kind of cheer each other on.
