nanowrimo :::

Another new thing I added to this blog over the weekend is a funky little piece of code which will keep you up to date with my NaNoWriMo word count throughout November. Look at that zero taunting me!

National Novel Writing Month was started in San Francisco in 1999 by Chris Baty and has been spreading its madness around the world ever since, inspiring thousands of people to get writing and achieving amazing things through its Young Writers Program (please donate here).

The idea is simple: write 50,000 in 30 days. No time to agonise, procrastinate or get too pompous about anything, but just enough time to aim for 2000 words per day, let loose the creative juices and get what must be an amazing glow of achievement at the end of it. It’s not going to be a perfectly formed novel in a month, of course not, but it’s a decent go at a first draft and a mountain climbed. Want to know more? Here are the rules.

I first heard about NaNoWriMo on October 31st 2007 and even I wasn’t crazy enough to say yes to starting the very next day. I’m ready now though, and prepared to do it in true seat-of-the-pants Chris Baty style with very little pre-planning. I have one character name and a sense of how the inner and outer worlds of my novel work but that’s all. No title, no plot. I’m excited!

Have any of you signed up? There’s still time for you to psych yourself up and join the challenge, just check out the main site for more inspiration (including an excellent podcast) and if you decide to go for it make sure you add me as a writing buddy. Viv, Ric, Jooles and Dan are in for the long haul, why not join us?

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