Well, it’s almost here. This year, I remembered about this event in time to decide to participate. In two days, I will begin this adventure of writing a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. The goal is to finally write the book I’ve been working on for six years (on and off, obviously). I have my outline of scenes, I have my one-line summary of where I’m trying to go with this idea and I think I’m ready to try this. It means writing 1667 words every day of the month. At the end of the month, you upload your manuscript to the website for a final word count which then labels you a winner or . . . not.

I’m nervous and excited about this. I have no idea how it will unfold, if 1667 words a day will take me three hours or one. I have no idea if I’ll feel energized by the challenge or drained. My worst fear is getting behind at the beginning and then feeling too defeated to continue. It almost seems like a blessing that John will be gone for the first 4 days of the month at a Texas wedding. It will give me a chance to totally focus.

I really want to finish the whole novel in November whether it’s 50,000 words or not – I’m not sure how easy it will be to gauge when to move to each next part of the story. It’s going to be interesting. Maybe someday I’ll post the whole thing in small increments. Actually that would be awful – I hate reading that much online. All that to say, I may post some things as I go but most likely you won’t hear from me for most of November.