nanowrimo09

nanowrimo is back! woot.

for those of you who don’t know nanowrimo stands for NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth — november! there’s an official organization called nanowrimo (nanowrimo.org), and they host a month-long endeavor for all those who will. the goal is to write a 50,000 word novel between november 1 and november 30. strictly speaking, i don’t follow their path, because one of their few rules is that you can’t use something you started writing before novmeber 1 — and i am going to be doing that. also, i’m aiming to finish a novel, but not with a set word count (if i finish at 45,000 words, so be it — etc).

those caveats aside, i AM on board again this year. my aim is to write 1,000-1,500 words a day every day in november. if at the end of the month, that’s not quite a complete novel, i figure i’ll have made such a dent that finishing it won’t be too hard.

as usual, my excitement got the better of me, and i started a few days ago – i have just over 2,000 words written, and i’ll be posting the piece here on the blog as i go along .

many thanks to all of you who have already voiced your confidence in me for this project. with this sort of thing, discipline is my worst enemy, so i need all the encouragement i can get — not necessarily encouragement that what i’m writing is any good; i’m a big believer in revising, so i’m not worried about the fact that my first draft will mostly be rubbishy — but encouragement to keep writing. if you see me in november, feel free to ask if i’ve written my words for the day yet :)

and so… here we go!