NaNoWriMo Challenge

I've registered with NaNoWriMo for this year's challenge - to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and is run by a friendly group of people trying to encourage writing. They're not a non-profit, and there isn't much in the way of prizes, but they have several thousand people signed up already. I've got a title, about half of an outline, and about an equal amount on my plot line worked out already, and I plan to start writing a little later today. I'm going to try to do this, keep up my blog, and continue my life as close to normal as possible, but I urge you to bear with me! I may get a bit cranky at times, especially as the deadline approaches.

Writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days isn't impossible, but it is a challenge. I wrote my first novel, HUKATA, in seven days. It took about three weeks of hard editing to get it to where it was a decent story, but the basic novel was complete - and about 97,000 words long. Depending on how well I do at the writing and inline editing, I may post exerpts of the novel to my website, and also to this blog, from time to time.