NaNoWriMo

For once, I actually remembered that November is National Novel Writing Month before it happened! So, I've signed up for NaNoWriMo, which challenges everyone and anyone to write a 175-page novel in thirty days. The idea is that if you've got a deadline, both for time and for word count, you'll get over your fears, hesitations, and perfectionism problems, and just bang out something that might be crappy, but it's an actual finished product that you can work with and edit. Since I started working on a young adult novel a few weeks ago, and since I promised that Amy's epic birthday present fanfiction would be finished by Halloween, this year seemed like the perfect time to join the crowd of folks writing frantically this month. So look for periodic word count updates from me!