I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year.
For those of you who are not familiar, NaNoWriMo is when someone commits to the crazy idea of writing a novel from start to finish in one month. The goal is 50,000 words in the thirty days of November.
I’ve attempted this so many times in the past and I have never quite made it through. Years when I was in school, November was a horrible time to attempt to write anything but the 930483048039 papers that were due. Other years (& sometimes those years as well), I would wind up in some horrible, gut-wrenching and heart-crushing fight(s) with my significant (or insignificant, as the case may be) other, leaving me too emotionally drained to even think about writing.
In any case, I look forward to the insanity that it will bring. As though the stress of completing horroctober wasn’t enough, here comes another month-long commitment right on its heels!
& hey, if you want to be novel writing buddies with me, look for jessrawk (of course) on the NaNo site.