NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo, which is short for National Novel Writing Month, (though since it is now world wide the 'national' part doesn't really work anymore)  is a program in which participants write a 50,000 words novel in one month.  That is 1,667 words per day!  Who would be crazy enough to do that?!

I am. My best friend, Haley, (whose awesome writerly blog is here.) found the program and encouraged me to do it.  And i did.  It was hard, it took a lot of chocolate and sleep deprivation, but i wrote a novel in a month.  Granted, it is not very good, after all it was a rather rushed project, but hey, how many people write a novel, even a bad one, in one month?

Anyone who is a 'one-day' novelist should do NaNo.  A one-day novelist is someone who always says, "One day i will write a book" yet never gets around to it.  NaNoWriMo gives people a deadline that helps them to accomplish the rather insane goal of writing a novel in a month.

NaNo has shown me that i really do love to write.  I realize that my first book is probably beyond editorial salvation, but my future books might not be.  And there will be future books.  Once you realize that you can write a novel, you are hooked on writing for life.:D