It's November, which means it's time for NanoWrimo: the international write a novel in a month challenge. I am a winner for 2008 and am going for it again this year. My goal is to write a first draft of a romantic comedy novel by the end of November. I will post excerpts and make it available for sale (after it's edited and revised) on my new site: Read-My-Stories-Online.com .
I went to my first "Write In" here in the Valley last night. We all started writing at the stroke of midnight. I'm now only about 500 words in, but am very excited. The question is: Will I finish? As you can see from this not-regularly-updated blog where I failed to finish the Music Industry group challenge, my confidence that I will finish this draft in a month may very well be misplaced. Add to it, I've just joined Deadline Junkies (a fab screenwriting group), and am in the midst of a second act of my screenplay with a reading scheduled early Dec, and my classes at the UCB Theater starting one week from today, and there are a lot of things to do. Will I succeed? Time will tell, but I am going to state right here that I will! Now, how foolish will I look if I don't!
Are you going to do it with me? Feel free to join us all on a month of "literary abandon." The water's fine.
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