Monthly Themes, As posted on the home page blog

[miss_elisha]

As you may know, Nat and E managed to get together (in the same room! on the same side of the continent!) over Easter weekend, and lo and behold, they did discuss some stuff related to To Boldly NaNo. They even made decisions. (*Gasp!*)

To desist with the third person, we decided on a few changes to be made around here (among other things). The major change you're going to see is the introduction of monthly THEMES. We've come up with a theme for each month (see below), and we've tried to incorporate writer-y things you may already be participating in, including, of course, NaNoWriMo. Prompts you see will relate in some way to the monthly theme.

Of course, you don't have to go along with our little theme if you don't want to. You're always welcome to keep aiming for 50,000 words in 30 days (or however many you want!). And please don't feel that you have to write a poem every day in April (National Poetry Month, dontcha know?)--I might post my prompt in the form of haiku, but you can write whatever you want! We're just trying to encourage you to stretch your limits and try new things, and to add a little spice to the site. Who knows, you might like it!

Also, we'll be rearranging the Message Boards to match up to our new themes, so keep your eye out for that! We might even post relevant topics!

So, the monthly themes are as follows:

January - Big, Fat, Scary Challenge Month
As long as we're setting New Years Resolutions, we might as well make it a challenge!

February - National Fan Fic Month
We know a lot of TBNers are fanficcers as well--as are Nat and E--so we might as well make a month of it!

March - National Novel Editing Month
We've had a break from our NaNoWriMo stories, now's the time to revise!

April - National Poetry Month
Anything and everything poetry

May - Drabble a Day in the Month of May
Drabbles are short (1000 words max), one-shot pieces that don't even have to be connected. That random stuff in your head? Write it out! The trick is to do it every day for a full month.

June - Script-Writing Month
(Yes, we know Script Frenzy is in April, but we're pretty sure National Poetry Month came first. Still, if you'd rather do scripting in April and Poetry in June, go right ahead!) The challenge is 100 pages of a script written in 30 days. You can do it!

July - Jotting in July
And now we're seriously starting to gear ourselves up for NaNoWriMo. In July, work on one story every single day. It doesn't matter how much you write, just that you get into the habit of doing it every day.

August - Word Count Month
Continuing our preparation trend, August is Word Count Month. Set a word count goal to reach by the end of the month--it doesn't have to be 50K--and then reach it.

September - Scribbling in September
In September we combine the concepts of July and August--write every single day on one story, and set a word count. Doesn't matter how many words, just set a goal, and get it written.

October - NaNoWriMo Prep Month
During October, we'll give you prompts related to plotting, character profiling, and world-building to help you build your NaNoWriMo story.

November - NaNoWriMo
The original 50,000 Words in 30 Days Challenge!

December - Happy Days Are Here Again
NaNoWriMo is over, the word counts are in, and December is all about having fun!



So that's it (for now)! Stay tuned for National Poetry Month, starting tomorrow, and happy writing!

[fabi60]

Sounds like fun to me! Oh, speaking of April, I said I'd write like 100 Haiku this month...

[natalie]

Better you then me fabi.

*whispers- I hate poetry. Can only stomach a few poets and poems. Look for a blog on it tomorrow, I hope.*

[mela81]

I can't even begin to say how excited I am by the themes! Except poetry. . . I don't mind reading it, but I'm not into writing it . . . no idea what I'm going to do this month.

[lelumarie]

I am stoked about April--it is most likely the only month besides May that I will write willingly.


Poetry

[kerrynangell]

If you want to NaNo in June the Southern Cross Novel Challenge runs over at the Kiwi Writers writing community.

Kerryn

[hariv]

i missed that last year. might take a look at it. ...but does it matter that i'm not from around there?