Ok, wait a minute...it's November already? I blinked and October was over! I think I say this every year, but 2012 seriously has been the fastest year EVER. Geez.
Anyway, so it's November, and November means it's NaNoWriMo time! NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, kids. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel between November 1st and November 30th, and you can't cheat by using any of your previous work- it has to be a fresh, new novel. Which means I can't enter using my current WIP, which is over 16,000 words now. And it'd really be cheating, considering I've been working on it for several months now.
Several months, and I'm only at 16k. Ugh. The progress I feel I've been making lately suddenly seems much, much less impressive. Sad face.
Part of me wants to try NaNo one of these days. 50,000 words in 30 days? Pssshh. No big deal.
Right.
The main problem is every time November rolls around (ok, well, these past three years when I've been really trying to write something worthwhile) I'm engrossed in something I already started. I don't think it would make much sense for me to stop working on the WIP, just to try to create some super crappy first draft of another book.
That said, I WILL use November as a month to be super motivated about writing. Maybe I can get 50,000 words down in the WIP- which would make it almost finished. My goal is usually around 70k for a completed story.
Ok though, let's be honest here. 50k ain't happening. I just don't have it in me to write so quickly. I will be a bit more realistic and set my goal at 25k. That sounds much more reasonable. So, by November 30th, I need to have a total of around 41,000 words written in the WIP.
I can totally do it.
To anyone out there participating in NaNoWriMo this month, good luck, and happy writing!!
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