November is National Novel Writers Month. Why am I pointing this out at the beginning of September? Because I just signed up to do it. For those of you who don't know NaNoWriMo is an entire month that is dedicated to writing a novel, to be more specific it is giving writers a specific time and amount. 30 days to write 50,000 words. Which is approximately 174 pages.
This is my first year participating and I don't think I will be able to meet the 50,000 words by the deadline. I would need to write 1,667 words a day to make the deadline.
I always thought it was called a deadline because by the time you actually made it across you were dead. At least that is what it seems like in my college classes.
You may be wondering why I would subject myself to such a brutal program. Why would anyone try pump out that many words in one month? Honestly I don't know. I just know that I want to try, that I want to pour out all of my creativity on this project. I know I will hit the point when everything seems hopeless when the words won't come, but I am going to write anyway. It is a challenge that will force me to grow as a writer. And probably not sleep for a month as well.
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