Nanowrimo and doctorate

My good teacher friend convinced me to do namowrimo this year.  I am writing a novel of 40,000 by the end of November.  It is a really cool program.  As long as you meet the amount of words, you reach your goal and win.  So, I go into her class once a week to write with her students.  Her class has 18 boys and 2 girls, freshmen.  They are so fun to sit and write with.  Anyway...my novel does not make sense at all, but I figure this year I will just get used to making myself do 1400 words a day and then for next year, I can plan ahead and try to actually structure out what I would want it to be.

And I applied to do a doctorate program.  Am I crazy or what?  But how can I pass it up when our next contract at work includes paying for 75% of graduate courses?  Although I am not sure I 100% want to do a doctorate in leadership, I do not really have much of a choice given that my masters was in education.  I guess if I really had a choice, I would go for a different masters or take courses I was in love with, but I will like the challenge and some of the topics of this degree too.

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  1. Ken SpencerNovember 12, 2013 at 9:03 PM

    Wow, Neen! You are amazing! What an astounding project - 40,000 words in a month! Interesting thing to do - to get the words down, and not to spend time fine tuning them - so different from how we usually write. Years ago I photographed Harold Robbins, and he talked about how he did a book. He would lock himself in a room, day after day, and just grind the book out. No distractions, no relaxing, just finish the book! And now a PhD too! I am exhausted just thinking about all the work... :-) I love that you don't back away from such challenges! You go girl!

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