NaNoWriMo

It’s here, it’s here! *jumps up and down*

November is National Novel Writing Month, and I’m so excited. The rules, write a novel (175 pages aka 50,000 words) in the period of a single month. It has to be done from scratch, outline is acceptable, but the whole focus is the time limit.

I’m a huge writing fan, though my experience with original fiction is limited to a failed Hopwood attempt and public schooling assignments. I have a problem with coming up with original characters, so I admit I usually write fan fiction.

I am really pleased that my roomie shares my passion, though we exist in different fandoms (I’m Transformers and she’s Star Trek). So we decided that we will each write a total of 50,000 words of fiction this month. That’s over sixteen hundred words a day. I’m so glad midterms are over now >.<

It’s a great feat to attempt, and some have been very successful at it. Think Water for Elephants. While most finished manuscripts are poor quality, for obvious reasons, there have been some written during this event that have then later been published.

Obviously, that’s not my own goal here, I really just want to see if I can do it. Next year, I’ll actually write up one of the novel ideas floating around in my head. Having a book published is one of my life goals.

NaNoWriMo is actually pretty young as event, 10 years this November. It started with only 21 participants in the San Fransisco area. Last year, there were over 100,000 authors participating nation wide.

You’re welcome to join in the action here, or see how I’m doing! Look up Uniasus.

Your writer wanna-be,
Jenny