NaNoWriMo ’07

Bet you don’t know what that is? Well, maybe you do if you read this blog, or definitely this blog.

However, if you don’t know what it is – it is National Novel Writing Month, and it is coming up in just a week.

I have been going just about crazy trying to decide on my topic/storyline. I have been participating in some random challenges from the website, just to keep myself occupied and fresh. What wound up happening though, was something I didn’t expect.

I wound up finding a story in our blended family. I decided to use part of our lives to create a character who was going through a similar thing and voila – I found a whole book. No. Seriously. I have no idea how I am going to do it either, because I now have a chapter written and it is against NaNoWriMo rules to write your book ahead of time. So that one will have to wait on the back burner until after the extreme writing craziness of November and extreme editing craziness of December. Which sucks btw: because I had some great storylines going.

In the meantime though, it gives my mind something else to think about instead of stressing over my ideas for the actual NaNoWriMo competition. I am initially aiming to win the 50,000 words, but am hoping I can bypass that and come close to 100,000. Say prayers. Lots of prayers. I need them.