Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Here We Go Again...

...on our owwwwn. Da Da. Goin' down the only road we've ever knooo-wone. Da Da. like a drifter i was born to ROCK ALONE!!! um, right, so NaNoWriMo is beginning again, and here I am again, ready to detail all of my pleasures and pains and excitements and disappointments and sleepy hallucinations, all for your very own reading enjoyment, you know, the 2 of you who may actually be reading this.

If you're lucky, I MAY even post a little excerpt or two. We'll see how that goes.

So, a lot of you have been asking me, "When can I read the novel you wrote last year?" Well, here's the thing. Writing is an elusive beast, and one that most writers are terrified of. We are all very attached to our writing and we're afraid that it's terrible, and we tend to revert back to the second grade feeling of having your pants pulled down in front of the entire 5th grade during recess. So, we tend to keep our writing pretty much to ourselves until someone writes us a check and puts it out there for us.

I don't know if that answered your question, but I think you get the idea.

For those of you who are just joining us (welcome!), last year, I wrote a novel in a month. I am again going to be joining several friends in the National Novel Writing Month challenge, which is to write 50,000 words in 31 days. MOST people do NaNoWriMo in November, but we all think that's silly because it only has 30 days AND we most of us travel for Thanksgiving and can't write when we're in a turkey coma. Also, we are not most people, are we? No. I think not.

So, as this is the second time I've done this, I gotta admit, I'm going in a little cocky. I know this is not a good thing. I know that I'm going to crash and burn at some point. But I can't help it. I'm all like "Whatever, I did this last year. I can do it again." Ahhh, the mighty (me) are about to fall. I know it, and yet I'm doing nothing about it.

So, basically, me and 5 of my friends are all going to begin our own 50,000 word novel beginning at midnight tonight and ending at midnight on October 31. That boils down to about 1,667 words per day. We have all modified the original "rules" somewhat to fit our own goals, etc, but I'm a purist and a type-A anal retentive, so I'm basically doing it the way it was originally set up to be done. I'm starting with a new story, I'm going to write at least 50,000 words, I'm not going to sleep or be seeing you until November.

Wish me luck!