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!