And by novel, I mean my writing, not as in amusing. Although, I suppose it may be amusing … but not really.
So, here’s the deal. Every November there’s this challenge called NaNoWriMo which is short for National Novel Writing Month. It started in the US, but has since expanded to an international thing thanks to the internet. Now, all over the world, aspiring and established novelists attempt to write a 50,000 word novel (or novella) in the space of one month – 12:00:01 November 1 to 12:00:00 November 30 to be more exact. (This is an annual event should you find yourself reading this and feel so inclined to participate yourself.)
I’ve participated a few times over the years since discovering it myself, but I have yet to win. BUT … this past year is the closest I’ve ever come at roughly 10K words. Most years I make it to about 5k or less, so I was pretty proud of myself. Even better, I kept writing. I’m now up to 15,000 words and counting!
In fact, I’m about halfway through my first draft. I am already making plans for the second draft too! I’m so exciting about this story, I can’t even begin to tell you. :D
That isn’t even the best part … the best part is that I have plans to write MORE once I’m finished this story! SEQUELS! And another TWO stories separate from this one altogether! I don’t even know where these stories are coming from! It’s like I just started writing and all these ideas started coming out. It’s so weird.
Of course, I may all be for naught as I don’t have any plans to actually publish any of these. lol I may not even get to writing anything other than the one novel I’m currently working on. For now, I’m just enjoying the creative outlet. I guess we’ll just have to see. *sigh*
I’m toying with the idea of participating in NaNoWriMo again. I’ve never actually finished. Hell, I’ve never written more than 5k or so. I pretty much fail at writing large amounts of text.
