Last year, I signed up for and successfully completed Nation Novel Writing Month. It was lots of fun and definitely exciting. Very tense trying to tap out 2000 words a day to meet the deadline of 50,000 words in a month. That's about a hundred single spaced pages for anyone keeping track; no Jodi Piccoult or Johnny Grisham, but a solid effort none-the-less.
I can't remember if I ever posted an excerpt from my novel last year, but…I probably should- if I remember it seemed to have some good passages. To be honest, I never fully finished the thing beyond the first slam-bang super-rough draft. I have it printed out and literally sitting on my desk with a red pen clipped on it, its just hard to get motivated to sit down and EDIT A NOVEL. The catch22 is that I want friends to help with the critique, but only after I've made the first pass, but I haven't made the first pass so I can give it to friends. Lame.
Also, this year I think I wouldn't mind failing, quitting, and coming up short if it meant I had a job and was working and making money, because that is NOT HAPPENING right now and it needs to start happening. I want writing a novel to be the thing that gets sacrificed, even though I hate stopping work on anything, I'm going to make an exception this November.
But the possibility exists that I might complete the novel AND find adequate employment, however, if its got to be one or the other- the words will still be available when I'm dead fucking broke.
At least let me pass the mantle on to all of you! I highly recommend you head over to http://www.nanowrimo.com and sign up for something that will be a huge accomplishment in your life. If you do it and complete the task(2000 words a day isn't as hard as you may think if you are regular typist), then before the end of the year you will have written a novel; which is something that not everyone can say they've done. Go for it!
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