Sharpen your pencils.
Every year, a group of enthusiastic writers pull together and support each other, pushing themselves to knock out an actual novel during National Novel Writing Month. Generally, most writers have the most trouble with just getting their butts into their seats and knocking out that first draft. So NaNoWriMo (which doesn’t really restrict itself to one particular nation) pushes you and your friends to write a complete 50k-word novel during the 30-day month.
I will do this in 2009. I will write a fifty-thousand word science fiction novel as part of NaNoWriMo. This might mean less frequent blogging here, but I can pay that price to finally look people in the eye and say, “yes, I actually have written a novel.”
Will you?
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