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National Everything Month

October 31, 2008, 11:03 am | View Comments

Well hello there! Gavin here. You might know me from Charm City Pod­cast with Gavin and Jake. No? Then maybe you’re fol­low­ing me on Twit­ter. I’m @charmcitygavin over there. Really? No? Still not ring­ing a bell? Well then I have no idea how you ended up here, but I’m glad you are!

So it’s Novem­ber! Well, tech­ni­cally Novem­ber starts tomor­row, but Hal­loween has become my tra­di­tional last day of hav­ing “free time” and “san­ity” before launch­ing myself in to National Novel Writ­ing Month (or NaNoW­riMo if you’re nasty). Nut­shell expla­na­tion: Every Novem­ber, thou­sands of peo­ple from all around the world write 50,000-word nov­els in 30 days, start-to-finish. This will be my sixth year participating. “Wow, that’s impres­sive!” you’re prob­a­bly exclaim­ing out loud at your com­puter right now. Yes it is, thank you.

This year, I’m chang­ing things up a bit, and quite frankly, I’m afraid I might be bit­ing off more than I can chew. NaNoWriMo is an emo­tional and phys­i­cal roller-coaster to say the least, and it was around the end of Novem­ber last year that I came up with the idea of doc­u­ment­ing the wild ride. It was too late to do any­thing about it then, so this year I am launch­ing The Gavin Show (this site right here!) and will post a short video every day about my novel-writing experience.

But wait! There’s more!

Why stop there? It’s also National Pod­cast Post Month (or NaPod­PoMo if you’re silly). My friend Rob Blatt asked me if I’d like to par­tic­i­pate this year. Because I’m a glut­ton for pun­ish­ment or men­tally ill (or both), I enthu­si­as­ti­cally agreed. Lis­ten to Put it in Your Ears every day for the month of November!

And, on top of that, I’ll still be record­ing reg­u­lar episodes of the Charm City Podcast.

So, to recap, in Novem­ber I will be:

  • Writ­ing a 50,000-word novel for NaNoW­riMo
  • Post­ing a daily video update about my novel
  • Post­ing a new episode of Put it in Your Ears every day for NaPod­PoMo
  • Record­ing reg­u­lar episodes of Charm City Podcast

The best part? You can watch me become unhinged right here on The Gavin Show. Stay tuned and enjoy!

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