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I'm excited (and somewhat nervous) to announce that I'm taking the plunge and signing up for National Novel Writing Month. Here's a description, from the NaNoWriMo web site, of what I've committed to doing in November: |
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Now most people who know me, know that I've been talking about writing a novel forever. Well, it's finally time that I put fingers to keyboard and start pumping out the words. The goal, as stated above, is to generate quantity, not quality. Anyone who knows anything about my writing habits knows that this will be an extraordinary challenge for me not to revise as I go along. But, as the rules say, that's what December is for.
Please wish me good luck on this endeavor, and I promise not to be too cranky as the month wears on and I'm trying to crank out this first draft.
