Online Support

I have started (very much just started) posting on various online forums. Asking questions, leaving comments, and just generally lurking. Forums related to writing. It seems to be a very helpful community and I have stumbled onto a couple of sites that run writing-encouragement programs.

NaNoWriMo is a website built around the National Novel Writing Month (November 1 - 30). The goal of this month is to write a novel, start to "finish," of 50,000 words within the month of November. Not sure how I feel about the idea; any writing is at the least good practice. But this could be an obsessive distraction for me; potentially dangerous. I'll keep it in mind though; November is still a ways off.

Our Eloquence appears to be a community that fosters "Word Sprint" relationships: writers to help and encourage each to reach goals. Be it word counts, chapters, or perhaps complete short works. I haven't flushed out all of the details of what is provided there, but it has captured my interest.

No word back from Dark Recesses or Deep Genre on my submissions, but this is a world of patience as much as a world of words.