I can't believe there are only 3 days until the month of madness as I like to call it. I stumbled upon NaNoWriMo last year at the end of October and wasn't quite ready to take on the challenge. I promised myself that this year there would be no excuses. I would be a 2007 NanoWriMo participant. Now I'm telling myself I will be a 2007 NaNoWriMo winner. I'm not going to spend the next 3 days dwelling on my MG novel to be, or talking incessantly to my characters. No. My method to beating this madness is getting a groove on. Yes, I write to music and I love to dance but what I need is a writing groove. My fingers will tap out a beat over the keys each day until I reach that coveted goal of 50,000 words, or maybe more!
I've cleaned out the fridge, stocked up on groceries, washed the car, caught up on laundry and other household chores. The dogs have even been groomed. I'm trying to eliminate any "outs" for myself in case I should start feeling a cluck coming on. There will be NO chickening out this time. I can do this. If I stop writing, what will I have to do? Shop? I don't really want to buy anything until I lose those pesky 10 punds anyway. That's it, I'll workout more. Nope, I've scheduled all working out for early morning before getting the kids off to school. I am determined to have a writing groove of at least 5 hours a day. Of course some of this time will involve my current writing, columns, volunteer publicity work for the schools and my coursework but the rest is for NaNo. 50,000 words seems like such a daunting task but it's actually only 1667 words a day. That's a piece of cake. Right? I mean, write? I organized my office and took care of all pending paperwork. I hung a huge bulletin board on the wall to post my color coded index cards with character and plot notes. My list of writing buddies is steadily growing over on the NaNoWriMo site and I can't wait to cheer them all on. I am more than ready to start regurgitating on my keyboard. I do hope that what I produce is of better quality than vomit though. Even if it's not, there's always rewrites in December. :-D
Ok, I'm feeling a beat and my fingers are starting to pulse. Is it November 1st yet?
Happy writing to all!
Lisa