NaNoWriMo 2009!

Does time really fly so fast that another year has already passed by for aspirant novel writers and followers of NaNoWriMo almost without a trace? Guess what, it didn’t seem that twelve galloping months have been taken off the pages of my writing life until I re-read this post! Nah, I am getting older.   And I haven’t written a  novel yet!

Just yesterday, I incidentally chatted with Sir Romy Mercado, a fellow adviser of college student writers whom I met in a regional writing contest for student writers 2 or 3 years ago.  He asked me if I were back to teaching because there’s an scheduled training for writers soon.  Oh how I miss teaching – writing more especially!

The short chat and the reminder of NaNoWriMo’s upcoming opening jolted me to a reality that I should have accepted before – there isn’t any other time to write (or to do whatever you want to do) but now.  It definitely isn’t tomorrow when the kids are older…as moms like me would say…but now.

Well, I should have learned much from Baby Bear in Sesame Street’s “Do the Alphabet” when he told Big Bird about his earnest desire to learn the alphabet.  You don’t understand, Big Bird.  I don’t want to learn the alphabet in a month. I want to learn the alphabet today, now!

Isn’t that the right spirit?