IntShoWriMo On My Mind

The month of April holds a special spot in my heart and it’s besides the fact it’s the month dedicated to my pet genre—National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) 2014 ended officially on 00:00 hrs on 30th April, 2014.

                One reason is I was born on a Good Friday in the month of April several hundred years ago. Then the internet became second home to me about five years ago when I joined an online writing community on April 7th. And then again, Maya Angelou, who happens to be my favorite mentor/poet, was born on 4^th of April.

And now you know why April gatto be the greatest month of the year.

The month of June is just around the corner. And just as April is known as the Poetry Month, June has become at least, for me, the Short Story Month otherwise called IntShoWriMo.

          IntShoWriMo is short for International Shorts Writing Month—formerly, NaShoWriMo; I was forced to change the name the previous year because a couple of sites around the internet have used it. Although, these sites are no longer operating, I think safe is well, safer than sorry.

The challenge is about writing 30 shorts in every form—short shorts, flash fiction, and the longer short stories—in 30 days to be written on/before midnight June 30th. I’ve written over 90,000 words since 2012—the year of inception. I’m not striving for more words than I did last year in 2014. Nope, that’s not in the plan. But I do hope to have my 30 stories down pat before 00:00 hrs on 30th of June.

                Just in case you were wondering, this is an official invitation to take part in this great and exciting adventure. I’ll be speaking more on this soon.

Keep your pens bleeding!

Akpan