NaNoWriMo

Yes, it's that time of year again, where every wanna-be author sits their backside in a chair and cranks out 1,667 words a day for thirty days until they sit back and have a fledgling novel in front of them.


And yes, I'm one of those wanna-be authors.


I've "participated" in National Novel Writing Month for a couple of years, officially and unofficially, but I never really got anywhere. Last year I even cheated and started off the marathon with a three chapter lead, but I still didn't get that many words written. I'll probably cheat again this year... <cough cough>


But here's the deal, it's not about who cheated and who finished and who wrote the best... it's about getting yourself out there, about sitting down and cranking out as many words as you can, as many sentences and paragraphs and pages and chapters as you can, in thirty days. It's a sense of accomplishment. It's a reason to actually do what you've said you're going to do, and that's get a hearty chunk of your imagination down on paper (physically or virtually).


It's almost a sort of release, a way to let your imagination explode with all the ideas that you get between times to actually write something... and for some of us who are busy and have homework up to the ceiling, there's a lot of time for pent-up ideas to bounce around upstairs.


It'll be nice to have some of that brain space back again. I'm so committed! It will be the greatest test of endurance ever! I shall have to maintain my homework AND 1,667 words a day for a solid MONTH! Woohoo!


Dan the Husband Man is so doing this too. We'll be each other's support groups... (Plus he's not in school right now and his job is super not hard, so he'd better finish his story!)


I know my friend Cannwin is considering it... anyone else out there considering or committed or even just tentatively contemplating it?

(PS- I'm tentatively thinking of starting another blog to post sections of my story as well as my progress with NaNoWriMo... Opinions?)