It’s that time of the year again. The leaves are falling, the days are growing shorter, going outside requires multiple layers of clothes, and tons and tons of nerds are going to try and fail National Novel Writing Month.
I am one of those nerds.
Whether or not I’ll fail remains to be seen (spoiler alert: I will) but it doesn’t hurt to try, right? The goal is to have a 50,000 words novel done by the end of November. Luckily for me the quality of the work doesn’t matter, but that wasn’t enough to motivate me last year: 2345 words. And it took me a week. So I’m trying something different this year. I’m gonna try to motivate myself by placing all of my writing on a blog, have it be open to critique, and so I can cry when I see that over the course of that month 3 people have visited it. Still, I feel it’ll get me motivated, and maybe something semi-good will come out of it. Can’t be worse than Twilight, right? And that shit sold bajillions.
I’m not going to spam this blog with (hopefully) daily posts, as I have other plans for this site, so instead I have made a little Tumblr, named it after the name of the novel, and prepared myself for incredible digital shame.
You can check it out, and learn more about the currently non-existent novel, here.
Hopefully I can balance this with school, work, and girlfriend, because winning NaNoWriMo would make me feel pretty good.
Oh yeah, if you follow me on Twitter or are one of my few Facebook friends, you will get spammed daily (maybe) by my updates. Deal with it.
