As you may know, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). It is aimed at anyone who has ever wanted to write a novel who set about writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59pm on 30th November. I think that whether you reach your target or not, the sense of community that surrounds the event each year is a great way to get motivated in November and beyond – read more about it here.
I was reminded about NaNoWriMo recently and this got me thinking about writing in Japanese. I don’t think I am up to the task of writing a full-length novel in Japanese, let alone English yet, but I wanted to think of ways to write about a bigger variety of things in Japanese. I currently write in my language journal several times a week (I try to write every day, but there are days when I don’t get round to it). I do want to write something every day, but I often find I end up writing about the same sorts of things such as going to work or what I ate for dinner, which gets boring quickly.
So I want to use November to get myself (and anyone else who is interested) writing every day with the November Writing Challenges!
On this blog I intend to provide writing prompts for each day of November. Depending on your level, some days will be trickier than others, but I hope you can give at least a couple a try. At the end of the month, I’m hoping I’ve managed to write something a bit more interesting, and continue to write creatively going forward.
If you’d like to get involved let me know in the comments – we can do this!
Question do you write in your Japanese log vertically or horizontally?
I recently realized that writing vertically is easier
I normally write horizontally, though I had to write vertically for essays when I studied Japanese at university. I will try writing vertically during this challenge!
why is that? do you also find it more comfortable to write vertically?
I guess because I write in a diary that has horizontal lines, I will just rotate the book so I can write vertically going forward 🙂
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