Well, it’s
November.
And you
know what that means, don’t you?
It means
that summer is far behind us, and the slow march to winter solstice is
beginning to take its toll.
Here in the
Gray-t Northwest, November means gray and drizzle and gray and showers and gray
and rain and more gray and cloudbursts and early nightfalls of a darker shade
of ... well, gray.
Here’s the
rub — if you’re not careful, all of that gray can start to affect your grey matter. And by mid-month you’re likely to find yourself listlessly sucking down
Darjeeling and eating orange marmalade straight from the jar.
I’m
speaking from experience here.
But this
doesn’t have to be you! Your inner awesomeness and a November stretch goal will
save the day... er... month!
Just say NO
to listlessness by checking out this list of fabulous possibilities—
Pen a novel!
(NaNoWriMo)
Create 30 picture
book concepts in 30 days! (PiBoIdMo)
Research and
write a nifty nonfiction piece! (WNFIN)
Or get
really inventive and create a November challenge of your own...
You could draft a
screenplay!
Revise those old
manuscripts you’ve got hanging about!
Do daily
morning pages à la The Artist Way!
You could even make it a
month of poems, jokes, comics, or paintings!
Due to the
fact that I write for a living and for fun, I decided to take that last option
last year.
I’d never
worked with acrylics, and I thought, Well what have I got to lose, but all that orange marmalade belly fat? Then I
set aside an hour a day for painting.
In the end,
it was great fun. And I particularly enjoyed two of the pieces I did...
Ahem...
Well, I
guess I was a little chicken after all.
But it
didn’t stop me.
PROMPT: Come up with a stretch goal and make
your own November to remember...
Chickens
are optional.
