Talk to you in December!

Thought process throughout the day: 

Wouldn't it be cool to join Nanowrimo this year?

I mean, I love writing, and since I haven't been in Archi writing circles I don't seem to write creatively as much as I want to.

How awesome! The website lets you pick a Home Region and you get updates if there are any writer events in your area!

Hm...I wonder what I should write my novel about? It probably doesn't have to be very long, the point is to finish the story, because I basically never finish a story.

Oh hey why don't I write about that plane transition thinking/flash moment event story that I talked to my Fiction prof about senior year? Yeah yeah, that sounds good. 

Oh man I also have to write my personal statements this month. No avoiding it now. Well at least I'll be in a writing mode. 

Hm...what should I write for my Author Bio? 

Nice, they have all this info about past Nanowrimos and how many people sign up and complete it. Hm too bad last year had less people finish it than the year before. I wonder if anything big happened last November that could have contributed to that. 

FAQs, yeah, that's a good place to look. Geez I wish the screen on my iphone was bigger. 

Oh wait...there's a 50,000 word goal? How many words is that per day? 1,667? Okay realistically I probably can't write that much every day, how about if I say 20 days of writing instead of thirty...over 2,000 words?? Uh oh...what did I get myself into...

But hey, it says that November is purely for output, and December is for editing. So why not? :) 



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