November is National Novel Writing Month. More familiarly, it’s NaNoWriMo. That’s not merely a month of salutation to the idea of writing a novel…it’s actually writing one. In a month.
NaNoWriMo has been around since 1999. This is my first year of taking on its Herculean task. I’m joining a couple hundred thousand other merry scribes who are shooting for 1700 words a day, 50,000 words by month end.
We’re pep-talking each other, we’re commiserating in forums, sharing plot-fixing advice and mining each other for very specific trivia (because who has time for research?). I just helped out a guy with a bit of the physiology of decapitation.
Mostly we’re writing. And writing and writing. So far I’m ahead of schedule, but there are a lot of November days ahead of me. Stay tuned.
And to all my fellow NaNo’ers: ya’ll are nuts. How the hell did you ever talk me into this?
