Red Room Where the Writers Are

I have been counting down til time to start writing on my novel for NANO. Seven days!!!!! I have been waiting like one should inspite the fact that I am dying to unleash the characters that are buried deep within my brain. I will be up at 12:01 come November first. Fingers hovering over my keys and waiting to hit my first keys.

I know they say it's quantity over quality. That the goal is to get yourself writing no matter what. To prove to one's self that one can write a novel in a short amount of time. It sounds easy enough for most but due to the fact I am easily distracted it's a little bit harder for me. By all rights I have been told by doctors I shouldn't be able to sit down and writing for any amount of time due to the fact I have AD/HD. I don't agree. For me this is my chance to prove as much.

Since a young age I have been writing. It's been my outlet in life. It's been my way of coping. I have a lot of people who find it funny that I am working so hard to break into a field that is so hard to break into. I have been ttold I am only setting myself up for heart break by chasing such a dream.

I just don't see it that way. Even if I never become published. Even if the only ones who read my works are the ones who are on the sites I haunt and close in my circle of friends it doesn't matter. The point is that I am at my happiest when I am writing. It's my first and in true my only real love. A day without writing for me is like a day without breathing. I just wouldn't be able to live without it.

Writing opens my mind. Forces me to look beyond what is right in front of me. To see with a mind that doesn't just have things in black or white. To see the waves of colors that dance in us as well as in those we see daily. I want to maintain an open mind and heart which is what writing allows me to do.

So to be able to enter in the writing for a month challenge is like taking that a step farther. To be able to surpass the baby steps of poetry and short stories. To be able to look back and prove to myself that yes I can do it inspite the little things in life that seems to get in the way. I know it won't be easy but I have never been one to do things that are easy. When it's over it will be worth more to me than all the money in the world. Because it is showing to myself that this is what My mind can do when I allow it to. That to me will be awesome in ways that can't be described. The ultimate dream.

So in seven days I will be doing what I had only dreamed of doing. It’s my hope that it will push me to write more novels (Good or bad). To get pass the excuses and the limits that I have lamely embraced in the past and become the type of writer I desire most to be in life.