NANO

I’ve made a decision. I have gone as far as I can in Chris Baty’s book about writing a novel in a month, and by George, I’m going to do it! I’m going to do it in November of course, along with thousands of other people, but I am so on fire for this idea that I don’t want to wait till November! Ilve already got a story idea, so I’m going to do a “WriMo” on my own—or NOT on my own, if anyone else is inspired to join me—in March.

Actually, I’m going to give myself a Beginner’s Handicap of a few days. On Feb 20 (next Sunday) I’m going to start note-taking/outlining/time-lining/etc. Baty says you can take no more than a week to do that. Then on Sunday, Feb 27, I’m going to begin writing. If you count through to March 31, it’s 33 days. Slightly longer than a month, but hey, February is kind of funky, and to tell the truth, I can’t wait to begin, so I’m just going to start a little early.

I’m writing this here so that anyone who reads this will know what I am doing and is welcome to question me on the progress of my novel. Also, I am writing this here, so that if anyone would like to join me, PLEASE DO!

By the way, a little hint that is not in the book: if you decide to write your novel out in longhand, each side of a sheet of looseleaf paper holds about 250 woords (for normal sized handwriting). So each day you want to fill about 7 sides of looseleaf paper, roughtly 1750 words per day. At that rate, it will take 28.571428 days to complete 50,000 words (or so my calculator tells me.) That sounds about right.

In the immortal words of SpongeBob…”I’m ready!! I’m ready!!! I’M READY!!!!!”