Today is Day 1 of Nanowrimo, AKA National Novel Writing Month. The goal of Nanowrimo is to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. It doesn’t have to be good. It doesn’t have to be edited, or in any kind of salable shape. It just has to be complete.
I tried a couple of years ago, and I think I got about 30,000 words before I gave up. It was just too hard for me to keep going every day. However, I think it was a good experience, and I’m thinking about trying it again. I know I should have decided before now if I wanted to start, but I didn’t. I figure that I still have a few more days before I’m so horribly behind that I can’t catch up.
It’s 1667 words a day. I have a few ideas…