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It starts tomorrow!  The 4 homeschool kids and I are going to participate!  


Here is a blurb from their website:

What is NaNoWriMo?

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.  Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.

Here is a link to the website in case you want to do it too!  

www.nanowrimo.org

The kids are signed up in the "Young Writer's" division.  They get to set their own word count so it is not so overwhelming.   If they reach their goal, they can send the book in to have it published into a real book (free for the first copy!)  If their books turn out well, family members may receive copies for Christmas!  Wooo Hooo!   They have been working hard preparing their character sketches and plots.  I told them that if they participate, they can get out of their journal, critical thinking and writing lessons for the entire month! 


 Although I have been thinking about this off and on since last November, I have no idea what to write.  Aaaaa!   I have always wanted to be an author.  Back in college, I planned on writing psychology type books that would launch me into a career of being a well-known and respected psychologist, philosopher and lecturer.  (Don't laugh.  I had a higher opinion of myself back then.)    After motherhood and life beat down my career ideals, I switched to dreaming about being the next Erma Bombeck.    I certainly have had enough laughable family related  trials to fill a few books!  Now, my brain has become rather mushy, and I don't think I could even pull off a few short stories with any quality.  Maybe I could crank out some children's books.  You know -- plots where the main characters learn to count from 1 - 10,  talking animals, small words...

Are we normal? Part 2

Kaylee took this picture for our "Are We Normal?" Series.  This is our vacuum cleaner.  A while ago, the cord broke.  I was happy about that, because I did not like the vacuum, and was excited about the prospect of getting a new one.   However.   Frugal, engineer father got an old extension cord out of the garage and wired it to the vacuum cleaner.  Now it works -- good as new.  Actually it is even better than new, because you can go practically anywhere in the entire house without having to switch outlets!  It is rather cumbersome to lug the lengthy cord around, but everyone seems to manage.  We were just wondering:  How many other people in the world have a vacuum cleaner with as amazing of a cord as we do?  Surely this is not normal.