If you’ve explored my site at all, you’re probably aware that I’m a writer. I’ve written and published lots of free content online, and I’ve also published four books on various topics and of various genres on Amazon.
However, there are numerous unfinished and unpublished manuscripts and stories saved on my computer. Some of them I started on my own during various times of the year, but most of them were furiously written out in the span of one month.
A sacred month, a glorious month, a stressful, exhausting, terrible month…
November is the month of challenges. Some do No Shave November, No-Spend November, and plenty of people set their own personal challenges for this month.
I, along with thousands of other writers, write a novel. 50k words in thirty days. It’s called National Novel Writing Month. It’s exhausting. Even if you can write the 1,667 words a day, if you miss a day you suddenly have over 3k words to catch up on.
I was doing fairly well until this
I’ve only lost NaNoWriMo once before because I was essentially grounded since I was behind on my schoolwork. Even then, I managed to sneak around and write about 12k words.
However, even if I don’t win this month, I’ll still be content. Instead of writing a new novel like I usually do, I decided I’d try to crank out 50k words for the second draft of an old NaNoWriMo project. I’m basically using NaNoWriMo to jumpstart the word flow for it, as I was stuck at about 24k words. NaNoWriMo is about quantity over quality, and since this is a second draft, I’m a little more interested in quality. If I get to 24k words and therefore double my original word count, I’ll still be happy because that first 24k took me several months.
I’ll probably be up late tonight and tomorrow and for many coming nights, trying to catch up on my word count. If I catch up, great. If I don’t, that’s fine, I’ll still be happy.
I’ll write a follow-up post at the end of the month to announce whether or not I hit 50k words, but for now, I better get back to it.