NaNoWriMo

This November I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month! It's pretty straightforward: from Nov. 1 thru Nov. 30, I (and about 200,000 other writers) will attempt to write a 50,000 word fiction novel.

In one month. 50,000 words. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? (By the way, that's about 108 pages, single spaced in Word) (!!!!)

Everyone out there seems to be working on a novel-- including myself. However, all I've got are a few pages of ideas, a list of characters and zero plot, and it's been in progress for a while. So when I heard about NaNoWriMo a few years ago, I thought "this is such an awesome idea!" but immediately forgot about it. The next year I suddenly remembered about it-- during the month of November. This year I saw it in my bookmarks in September and decided I was actually going to sign up!

So November is just a few days away and the experts recommend trying to bang out like 25,000 words the first week. I'm very scared. Very excited, but very, very scared.