November is National Novel Writing Month. Oh how I wish it were in, like, July. I signed up for it last year, but writing fiction is not as easy as churning out diatribes about what happens at school every week. And considering November is report card and conference month, teachers are just overloaded to the max.
Then I thought about turning this blog into a book. What fun that would be! 
I’ve already thought of a few different ways to organize it. But then I thought, What’s the point of writing it if I can’t publish it? Because I would sooo have to leave my school – unless they’ll publish me anonymously! But then how could I be interviewed on Letterman?
I’ve already missed a day! (Spent the day grading tests – can I include my notes of “Please listen to and read directions” in my word count?)
Thoughts?
I’d publish it!!! Especially since you don’t sound all that thrilled with your school anyway. It could lead to some great opportunities… maybe in addition to working as an author, you could start working in teacher training, etc… Or as a Supernanny type person with your own show!
I think it’s worth a try! 
Oh my Lord, can you see me as a SuperNanny type? I’d be all, You need to beat that child!
(Have you seen World’s Strictest Parents on CMT? It is good, but deals with mouthy teenagers, so I could only watch a few. That’s why I don’t teach secondary.)
So I started an intro and got up to 228 words already!
We’ll see what happens. I’m not feeling stressed out like when I tried it last year (and lasted two days – but it was fiction which I find much harder than this kind of memoir-writing).
They don’t have “memoir” as a genre. How about “Horror & Thriller”?
I ended up choosing “Humor, Satire & Parody”, though it is a bit of a horror story…
Haven’t accomplished a whole lot, though I did just come up with a title for a book about this school year:
Another Year in the Life of a Teacher: The Year I Become a Full-Fledged Germophobe, or, I Strike it Rich Buying Stock in Lysol
I crack myself up.
I think I’ve given up. It’s just too much with report cards and conferences. Though we’ll see if I can get anything done over the Thanksgiving Break.