I’ve had major bloggers block. My days have been filled with half-baked ideas and false starts. There are about ten started blog posts, five more I researched and zero actually written and posted.

For many days my husband has asked, “Did you blog today?”

My big-eyed-wild-haired answer was a resounding and agonizing, “No!”

Depending on Jimmy’s level of braveness for the day, he’d either fold his arms and stare me down or scamper quickly into another room. Either way my vision orbs would roll around my head like thrown dice and I’d snarl.

It wasn’t pretty.

It still isn’t.

I’m still not sure what to write about on open adoption. However, I might have found the solution to break the blog block barrier.

Now this might help me, but also inspire you! If you’ve ever wanted to write and got stuck on the ‘importance’ of writing, or just didn’t know where to start, or felt you weren’t a writer so what the heck-are-you-thinking-of-writing-a-book-for type…. Well, good news! It’s National November Writing Month. Also known as NaNoWriMo for short.

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.

Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.

Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap.

Read more here.

Since I couldn’t write at all, I decided I’d write like mad instead.

The point of NaNoWriMo is to just write.

It doesn’t have to make sense or be a best-seller.

If you’ve always wanted to write your adoption story or something adoption related (or even not) this is a great month to get started.

The goal is to reach 50,000 words this month -- which makes it pretty much impossible to be too darn nit-picky about what you’re hammering out.

You’re just supposed to write it.

They don’t hold it against you if you don’t make the word count, but the ones who do are verified and put in the hall of fame somewhere.

So I’ll be writing like mad this month – and I’m sure editing and re-writing in December, January, February and… well I’m sure you get the picture.

If you want to see my progress during the month, I will be posting my word count here or here or here.

If you do decided to join up (and it’s free) let me know!