It is that time of year ... NaNoWriMo!!!

http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/cjaycontent/index.php?id=2

I'm sure some of you (aside from KoM) are wondering what the hell NaNoWriMo is. Don't worry, I asked the same thing last year (or the year before, don't remember) when my good friend High Priestess of the Puck mentioned it. Turns out, there's an international group of people that get together for a month (November) and write themselves silly.

The rules: 50,000 words by midnight on November 30th. Yep, that's pretty much it. The link above gives more "Abouts" and the evolution of NaNoWriMo, but KoM and I have gotten into a little contest about who can actually cross the finish line, desperately clutching their 50,000 words. I say I can kick his ass, because on any given writing day, I can turn out more words than he can. And that, dear readers, is pretty much the only point of NaNoWriMo: quantity - quality comes later.

My one concern in this comes from the fact that (ok, so there are more than 2 rules), in order for your epicurean output to count, it must be a new story. And I have just done the tally: I currently have 25 stories sitting open, waiting in various states to be finished. 25. This goes beyond ridiculous into insane. Keeping in mind some of these stories are older than the lappytop here - at least 7 of them evolved through the various (3) laptops I've had over the years, starting out as poor "paper and pencil" stories. Look where we've come from there. I think I still have the original hard copies around here somewhere, condensed into the largest binder I could find at the time (4"). Yikes.

So I guess I have less than a month to either finish a story and make room in the pantheon for the new NaNoWriMo story, or simply shove everyone else aside and start another story. At least this one will have inspiration to be finished; inspiration, deadlines, whatever. I want the little gold star that says, "You finished." Whether the story actually gets read or published is never my concern.

Let's go, KoM.

NaNoWriMo: Kali_Ma.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/cjaycontent/index.php?id=2