Autumn Breezes

I love fall. There's something about the crisp air, the morning fog and the changing colors. It stirs this excitement in me, this enchantment. I feel motivated, inspired. I want to create, to explore and do new things. This feel always overcomes, and each year I try my hardest to describe it, to put these emotions in to words.  Yet I can never seem to do that. For me, fall holds so many good memories. Many adventures I had as a child exploring the small patch of woods behind our house, raking up the leaves then burying myself down in them. Even in my teen years the turn of the season held something very special for me. That special thing is National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo is simple yet so beautiful. The idea is to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November.

It's really because of NaNo that I'm a writer at all. I started writing at age 11 because two of my older sisters did it. Then at 14 one of my sisters told me about NaNo and said I should do it. I managed to make the goal just before midnight on the 30th of November. That was the very first novel I had ever written and the very first book I had completed. Granted the book was terrible and shall never see the light of day, but it started me down the path of being a writer and I wouldn't have things any other way.

Writing has become my number one hobby and I would honestly be lost without it. It's something I adore and I am forever grateful to NaNo for pushing me in that direction. Since 2007 I have done NaNoWriMo every year, and won. And yes, I of course plan on doing it this year as well

As usual with the changing weather and start of September I've begun to think about what I'm going to write for NaNoWriMo. Well, in truth, I've already figured out what I want to write. I'm just in the process of figuring out how to tell the story. Once I figure more of the novel out I will no doubt write a post about it. I adore rambling about my writing but there are few ears who wish to listen.