Every year NaNoWriMo (http://www.nanowrimo.org/) kicks off in November with writers around the world gathering to pound out 50,000 words of a novel from scratch. This is an amazingly supportive and generative event, pushing writers to stop obsessing, planning, and talking about what they are going to write and just do it.
Unfortunately for most of us academics, November is probably the worst month to begin a new project. Therefore, in conjunction with Write Club and with the support of the Writing Center, we declare July to be OU/NorWriMo!
OU/NorWriMo will challenge to writers in the OU/Norman community to stop saying they are going to write and start writing. In the spirit of inclusivity, not only novelists or even prose writers are invited to this event: If you write, then you’re invited. Novelists will write 50,000 words of a new novel. Short story writers, nonfiction writers, and bloggers will set a daily word count or a number of new pieces to finish by the end of the month. Poets should set a number of poems they would like to complete per day or week.
Our kickoff date will be June 30th, so if you’d like to come to the meeting and set your goals with a group of likeminded writers, you are welcome to join us at 3:00pm for this meeting. The OU Writing Center has provided space (and coffee) for us to gather and discuss.
In addition to being invited to join us on that date, you can join us on Fridays in the Writing Center. We’ll run marathon writing sessions from 10am-3pm and meetings to check-in on progress and vent at 3pm.
If you’re unable to come to these meetings, you are certainly welcome to plan other meet-ups via the Facebook Event or on our page at OU Creative Writers Community, OR you can check-in with your progress online to brag on yourself.
