Nano… again.

Third time is the charm? I started Nanoing in 2007, with my first attempt reaching around 35,000 words. Last year I did much less good, hitting about 20,000 words. This year? Who knows. I actually have a story I’m plotting in my noggin as we speak, and have been brewing it for some time. I don’t know how sold I am on the idea of the story, but it’s pretty well developed so far, so I might as well start it and see what happens.

For those who do not know, Nanowrimo is National Novel Writing Month, a month where you throw yourself into writing a terrible novel. The goal? 50,000 words. It’s about 1667 words a day or something like that. It’s held officially in November, which is when the website gets dusted off and wound up again for another spell of what they call Literary Abandon.

To be honest, I really wasn’t planning to do it this year. I had some bad people experiences last year (“I am better than you nyah nyah”) which put me off the community and interaction angle of the whole deal, and forcing another 1600 words out isn’t easy when there’s no support. In fact, I only decided to go ahead about 20 minutes ago. The warming weather, and a glance at the website making me get the bug again.

I’m not a brilliant writer, but I love to do it. Which I suspect is the appeal of Nano. There’s no time to second guess, redraft or otherwise fuss over what you’ve written. Sounds bad? TOO bad! Next chapter please, time is awasting.  Decide halfway through everything is crap? Change it, but don’t go back. Those words are precious, and all that word padding you’ve done is going to be wasted if you start over!

So yes, once more unto Nano my friends. Don’t expect blog posts. Or me being in any way nice to you. Just for November, promise.