NaNoWriMo

I’ve just signed up for NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. I’m four days late joining, so I now have 25 days to write 50,000 words. Not impossible. That’s 2,000 words a day. 

There’s some useful advice on the site. I think the thing that convinced me to sign up – at five to midnight, when I should be sleeping – is this:

Bringing a half-finished manuscript into NaNoWriMo all but guarantees a miserable month. You’ll care about the characters and story too much to write with the gleeful, anything-goes approach that makes NaNoWriMo such a creative rush. Give yourself the gift of a clean slate, and you’ll tap into realms of imagination and intuition that are out-of-reach when working on pre-existing manuscripts. 

One thing I’m often guilty of is procrastination… or being paralysed by indecision, depending on how you look at it. I’m going to take their advice and just write. And see what happens. Much of it is likely to be utter tripe, but there you go. Hopefully I’ll learn a thing or two along the way. 

Wish me luck…