Yikes!
We’re entering week two of nanowrimo.
Now, since you are most likely on the Internet, it is very possible that you have heard of nanowrimo.
If you haven’t: NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. During the month of November many insane people attempt to write a fifty thousand word novel. I am one of those people.
So far I have 7,592 words. This is NOT GREAT AT ALL. It is more than I wrote in all of nanowrimo 2007, though. Which goes to show you how much ambition I had last year.
There are so many distractions when you set out to write a novel in thirty days. Schoolwork to be done. A house to clean. Music that wants to be listened to as you dance around in front of the computer while not writing. A friend with a shiny new Wii. The Interwebs to surf. Showers to take.
These obstacles may be hard to overcome, but if you reach 50,000 words I suspect it would be worth it.
Obviously I am not all that committed. I am writing a blog while I could be working, after all.
But I don’t think my mind can handle much more. My fingers are resisting the keyboard. The words I type make no sense. I will be writing along, and then: Jupiter applesause finger trap jumped. What?! That is not a coherent sentence. It does not belong in a novel. It should not come into existence at all. But things like that happen. I will be going along, and then all of a sudden I won’t know what the shift button does. Or maybe I will forget portions of the alphabet.
It is all part of the process.
Eventually, I will wise up and put on some They Might Be Giants and actually write. Maybe it will only be three hundred words. But that is three hundred more.
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