It’s that time again!! 

November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and I’ve signed up for challenge for the second year in a row.  During NaNoWriMo, you pledge to write a 50,000 page novel in the month of November. 

Is that even possible you say?  Isn’t that a daunting task you say?

The answer to both is “Well, yes.”

It’s more than possible to crank out 50,000 words with 30 days of concentrated effort.  And no, it’s not that daunting of a task.  The purpose of NaNo is simply to write, write, write.  Not edit.   So yes, a bunch of crap will be produced, but at the end of the month, you have 50,000 words of a solid effort that can be revised, tweaked, or extended into a masterpiece. 🙂 

I did NaNo last year, but I fell short of the 50,000 word count goal by about 30,000 (give or take a word or two).  In the past year, I’ve grown as a writer.  I’m still not where I want to be, but I am further along than where I was. 

So calling all writers, come join me in NaNoWriMo 2009.   Even if you don’t reach the 50k mark, you’ll have more than you had going in.  This year, I’m going to work on my Urban Fantasy trilogy.  And in true NaNo spirit, I’m just going to go for it and see what I get.  All I have is a theme (is you want to call it that), a very  loose idea of where I think I want to end up, a cast of lead characters, and a hope & a prayer.

 That’s it. 🙂

Will I end up with a sparkling manuscript, ready to be queried out?

No, but I hope to jog loose enough ideas so that I’ll have both a solid start on book 1, and a better idea of how this story will play out over the course of the series.