T minus one day to…

NANOWRIMO!  This year, as with last year and the year before, I shall be nanowrimoing.  The challenge is to write 50,000 words of a novel during the month of November.  Now, I am a slow writer.  I write a few lines.  I stare at those lines for a while.  I delete those lines.  I re-write them slightly differently.  This means that I am generally quite happy with my work as it progresses, but that I have no hope of writing 50,000 words in 30 days, while I also have a full-time job and a social life.  I am not, however, deterred.  I like to see nano as a framework, an impetus to write.  I can track my progress on my page, see how my writing buddies are doing, trawl the forums for advice.  For some people, nano is a sprint to the end – 50,000 words, 30 days, be damned with editing – but for me, it’s more of a hike; I stop and take in the scenery, consider carefully which path to take.  So, I’ll be (very pleasantly) suprised if I have 50,000 words of this novel on 30th November, but I will definitely have a good chunk – hopefully, a good chunk of novel that I don’t want to hide away in a drawer for shame.