November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and it's high time I mentioned it. The goal, should you choose to go for it, is to write a 50,000 word novel during the 30 days of November. Writing daily, that's 1666 words a day.
I discovered NaNoWriMo two years ago, on about November 5th. I made some effort at fiction, but it didn't last long. It was uncomfortable and certainly absolutely horrible writing. So... I decided to just write. No fiction, no plot, no story. Just me and my thoughts. I had fun with it. It seemed like I did a heck of a lot of writing, but I think it was about 25,000 words, which is rather short of the 'official' NaNoWriMo goal.
The fellow who founded the thing, Chris Baty, has a book (and more than that) entitled "No Plot? No Problem!" Check out the NaNoWriMo site if you're at all interested in writing anything. Maybe sign up. Maybe give it a shot. There's lots of encouragement available, and lots of fun.
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