“NaNoWriMo Gone Wild: The Quest for 50,000 Words,” by Amanda L. Webster, will take you along on one writer's quest to write 50,000 words -- any 50,000 words -- in one month. Part journal, part writer's manual, part happiness manual, part memoir of an abusive marriage, it will make you laugh, cry, roll your eyes really hard, and perhaps even inspire you to write 50,000 words of your own.
Excerpt:
I am in the shower. Alone, thankfully. I know I invited him to shower with me, but really, I don’t know how much longer I can stand to live with that bastard. Nothing I ever do is good enough for him.
The shower curtain rustles. Damn. I guess he changed his mind. He slips up behind me and wraps his wraith-like arms around me. He pushes my hair aside and kisses me on the side of my neck, just below my ear, because he KNOWS that is the ONE thing that turns me on every time. Dammit.
And then he does it. He presses his lips to my ear and whispers, “You realize NaNoWriMo stands for ‘National NOVEL Writing Month,’ not ‘National MEMOIR Writing Month,’ don’t you?”
BASTARD!
I hate you, Writer’s Block.
Excerpt:
I am in the shower. Alone, thankfully. I know I invited him to shower with me, but really, I don’t know how much longer I can stand to live with that bastard. Nothing I ever do is good enough for him.
The shower curtain rustles. Damn. I guess he changed his mind. He slips up behind me and wraps his wraith-like arms around me. He pushes my hair aside and kisses me on the side of my neck, just below my ear, because he KNOWS that is the ONE thing that turns me on every time. Dammit.
And then he does it. He presses his lips to my ear and whispers, “You realize NaNoWriMo stands for ‘National NOVEL Writing Month,’ not ‘National MEMOIR Writing Month,’ don’t you?”
BASTARD!
I hate you, Writer’s Block.
