Today is November 1st. To the normal folk, it's just the day after Halloween in which we are all now suffering from an enormous sugar high.
To us writers, today was the start of National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo.
The goal is to start a fresh novel, write 50,000 words in just 30 days. The contest ends November 30th @ midnight. The thing is, you are in competition with yourself. Almost 160,000 contestants and the only person you have to beat to win is, well… You.
The other 159,000 writers doing this is your support group, aka cheerleaders.
Some say it is invigorating. Other’s daunting. Me, I wouldn’t know, I haven’t tried it yet.
I just found out about it last year. The problem is, every time November comes around, I am knee- shoulder-eyes deep in another project.
Currently I am in the revisions process of my latest WIP and it just wasn’t in the cards for me to try it out this year. But I am cheering from the sidelines for all of you who have signed up for NaNoWriMo and are writing away at this very moment.
