The world through NaNoWriMo.

NaNoWriMo can be the most helpful thing, or the most treacherous. It can be amazingly simple, or finger-breaking hard. It's one of those things that one day you want to pull out your hair, others you just sit back and go "wow".

NaNoWriMo stands for "National Novel Writing Month". Your goal ? 50 000 words. Your time frame ? November 1st to the 30th. Your diet ? Halloween treats and flat coke.

Now, I'm sure your staring, blinking, at the screen. Fifty. Thousand. Words. IS SHE MAD ?!

The answer; Yes. I'm completely, utterly, and proudly insane. I beat kids with inflatable dolphins, and I like to blare 1920's country music through open windows.

But that's besides the point.

Nothing is more fun then TRYING to achieve something. You may fail horribly (as I, myself, expect to do). Or accomplish something beyond your greatest dreams. You may, in the end, need to spend some quality time with those men who give you the nice white jacket, and have fun bouncing around in a rubber room. Or, you could be in the next local paper; your NaNoWriMo published, because, you succeeded in writing the story you've always meant to write, but, "didn't have the time".

All this, of course, revolves around your ability to cope, and your attention span. Which I have very little of (attention span that is). If you can, as many can't, sit down in front of your computer screen for, oh, a few hours a day, just typing? Kudos to you. Because, if anything, that's my principal weakness.

None the less. This entire blog entry is actually me procrastinating writing.

It's working.

But, alas, I need to continue.

Comment, if you too feel the burn of NaNoWriMo.

--Lori (End)