Hi Team,
How’s our merry band of writers doing this week? It’s almost
the last day of November so those who took up the challenge of Nanowrimo will
be feeling the strain of completing their word targets by midnight on Saturday.
I’m grateful that some of our little band chose to do a mini version of the
full event and just aimed for 1000 words every day for November rather than the
entire 1667 words a day. Surprising what a difference that makes, especially
when you’re a day and a half behind and struggling to catch up! There are
several benefits to putting yourself under pressure to perform by entering
Nanowrimo – it sets up good habits of staying at your desk until you’re done, and
of writing through any potential blocks. And if you let the words flow freely
as they spring into your mind, you can allow your creativity full rein rather
than stopping to consider every word. I’ve had a great time doing it and plan
to carry on for December. (Oh all right, maybe a couple of days off for
Christmas!)
Now, on a parochial note… Next Saturday, the 7th
of December, we’ll be manning a stall at the Browns Bay Christmas event, hoping
to hand-sell a few books to the Christmas shoppers. It’s a chance to push the ‘support
local business, not big corporations’ barrow and convince people to buy local.
The market runs from 11am through to the Santa Parade around 5pm and we’d love
to see you there. Look for the Let’s Buy Books banner.
I attended a couple of colourful book launches recently –
one for Jack Smith’s autobiography Ahoy
There about his early life in the merchant navy, which was launched at The
Bookmark in Takapuna to the accompaniment of raucous sea shanties.
The other was historian Scott Bainbridge’s latest book, The Basset Road Machine Gun Murders,
which was held in Shanghai Lil’s, a cellar bar in Parnell, full of oriental silks
and scattered cushions. Scott and several guests dressed as gangsters and the
crowd got right into the spirit.
Start thinking about the launch you could plan for that
Nanowrimo novel, once it’s finished…
Happy writing everyone!
Bev Robitai
Aka Officer in Charge
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