36 hours in

and I've written 7,416 words, surprising even myself.

Yay!

2000 words and counting...

and I'm off on my NaNoWriMo adventure!

2002 words so far, to be precise.

Are they deathless prose? Gawd, no. In fact, I'd like to kill off paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 6-22, and possibly 23-31.

But I won't. Because that's the point of NaNoWriMo - to write laughably awful prose together with nearly 90,000 others in the spirit of fun, encouragement, and "getting the darned thing down on paper" while pointing and laughing at our Inner Editors and scarfing enormous quantities of cookies.

I'm so excited I am almost giddy. Onward and upward, word count!

Where I've been, and what I've done

Terrifyingly enough, I've signed up for NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month (which is actually the International Novel-Writing Month now).

During the month of November, nearly 80,000 participants from around the world, between the ages of 13 and ??, will attempt to write a 50,000 word first-draft novel. We have set quite a challenge for ourselves, but I think it will be GREAT fun - and the pressure to write "perfection" is off, since nobody in their right minds should actually think it will be anything but a working draft of our original idea.

Scary, fun, busy, exhilarating and utterly mad - and at 12:01 am on November 1st, it will all begin....

Watch this space for updates from the land of speed-writing insanity!