She who needs to write more...

Okay, I admit it... I am not feeling quite so crazy as I did yesterday. After spending some quality writing time at the laptop keyboard yesterday and today I have been able to log a total of 2,657 words. Now, if I can just keep up that pace ...

Oh no! I WAS feeling less crazy. But that was before I did the math! At the rate of 1,328 words per day, for 30 days, I will be at the grand total of 39,841...
Which means I will be ONLY 10, 159 words short of my goal...

SIGH !! And I thought I was on top of things here! Maybe I should add my the word count from my blogs to see if I can get closer to the 50,000?

Oh well... there will be days when I can crank out more than 1,300 words and there will, in all likelihood, be days when I can't even come close to that number. So, let the chips...um, words...fall where they may. I have thrown down the proverbial gauntlet and challenged my muse - and myself. So, back to the keyboard and the NaNoWriMo project!

What Was I Thinking?

I must be as nuts as those acorns that I wrote about in my "He's All Boy" blog note the other day! What was I thinking? What possessed me?

I guess I dared myself to try to do the NaNoWriMo challenge. For those of you who are not familiar with NaNoWriMo let me explain. November has been earmarked as the month in which writers are challenged to write an entire novel in one month - the goal being 50,000 words or more!

"You've got to be kidding me!" I thought to myself when I first read about it. But, for some reason the concept would not go away. Maybe my muse was chattering in my ear about it. For whatever reason, this morning, I went to the NaNoWriMo website and signed up to participate in the challenge.

Now, let's get one thing perfectly clear here - The challenge is to write the 50,000 words in the one month time frame - not to have a polished, ready for publication novel in hand at month's end. So, in essence, it is a challenge to have that all important first draft done -- or at least the first 50,000 words of the first draft.

So, those of you who have always encouraged me to write a book -- well, now's your chance to see me attempt to do just that. And for those of you who have thought all along that I had a few screws loose, perhaps you are right and this proves it. But perhaps you are wrong and I will prove that to you instead!

At any rate, the next 30 days will be filled with writing frenzy as I try to reach my goal -- to rise to the challenge or dare that I gave myself this morning. Not a 'bet you won't do it" but rather a "you can do it if you try" sort of dare.

Will she or won't she? Time will tell. And this blog will tell of the process and the progress so return often!