NaNoWriMo

As if I haven't been busy enough trying to keep up with my new salsa partner's requests to meet for dancing, the Sudoku I've finally started playing (a late adopter yes, but I'm already looking at possible addiction), I've decided to try NaNoWriMo.

NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. The goal: 50k words in 30 days. Am I crazy? Perhaps. Am I finally using the document I created of my first blog and personal journal entries and creating the book I always threatened I would? Yes. [note: No, it's not forbidden to use a blog or other outline/notes for this project -- you just can't use a partial (novel) manuscript as a starting point -- BreakupBabe created an early draft of her blog-to-novel during NaNoWriMo.

It all works out to somewhere between 1700-2000 words per day.

Where am I at today? 769. But I only threw some words on the page, just so I could start it. I need to review my blog/journal document, and decide what I want to mine (and lie about).

I once saw a video of an author (John Updike?) who said [sic]:

"Every year, I decide to write my autobiography. Then I start to lie, and then I have my next novel."