NaNoWriMo

Yesterday I came across this National Novel Writing Month thing, apparently referred to as NaNoWriMo. Basically it's this "project" that starts in November each year. Anyone can sign up, and the point is to force or inspire (perspective!) yourself to write furiously for the month of November, aiming for a quantity goal and thus not worrying at all about quality. The goal is 50,000 words at the end of the month, which I calculated comes out to 1,667 per day. That's not a WHOLE lot, but it's definitely a lot. And enough where skipping a day would be pretty hard to make up without getting on a serious roll another day. Which is why I love this, and why it's so convenient that I stumbled across it on March 1st. I'm going to do it myself! I don't think I'm even going to worry about the whole novel part, I'm just going to borrow this quantity goal--obviously doable, since so many other people do it--and make it my own. 50,000 words by March 30th (because November only has 30 days). I've got 3,034 so far--46,966 to go!