So in a fit of late-night insanity, I decided to sign up for a thingie called National Novel Writing Month. Pretty much just a mind-game to get you to write a small book as fast as possible. It doesn't have to be good, you just have to write 50,000 words in 30 days. I figure I have a ton of story ideas swirling around that I've just been too lazy to actually write down anywhere, so this is a good excuse to try. I went back over some of the old documents I DID write down, and I think I can write down 1,666 words a day rather easily. (1,666 x 30 is ~50,000)

They say you should shoot for quantity over quality. It's sort of a rough draft. Dump your brain onto the paper and see what comes out and don't bother fine-tuning anything. We do that later. Which is pretty much what I need to do... and learn HOW to do. Obsessive perfectionist that I am. This'll prove interesting.

I put a little word counter on the sidebar over tharr so everyone can spy on how much I've gotten done. I figured out how OpenOffice Writer keeps track of words (durr, it was in the Tools menu) so I should be able to figure out how to keep things updated. Not sure how
it all works, but hopefully it'll all be gooood.

...and before you ask, NO! You can't see what I'm writing!
But here's my profile in case you wanna see.

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 28th, 2006 at 3:17 am and is filed under General, NaNoWriMo.