By December 1 I plan to be a novelist.
Oh, not a published novelist, mind you (though technicallly I have authored 3 published, non-fiction books). Today I signed up to take part in NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. The idea is pretty simple: Do whatever it takes to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. There’s a whole website dedicated to it, and people apparently really get into it. It’s not a matter of writing a really good novel that you think will get published or even read by anyone outside of a few people. The idea is to slam against your boundaries and walk away saying “I wrote a novel”. How many people can say that?
And of course, I plan on having fun along the way. I like writing and haven’t written fiction in a long time. I’m going to be posting my novel exceprts and progress here, and will create a separate section of the site for anyone who actually wants to read it. Sounds like some of us over at Evil Avatar (a gaming news/gossip site) may form our own little NaNoWriMo clique, which could be cool. So stay tuned.
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