National Novel Writing Month

Yup it exists- Weird how things happen everyday in this country and yet one can be oblivious to it. I was reading about it and before I knew it I was on a rocking website all about it: www.nanowrimo.org

Basically a person signs up for the event starting Oct. 1- I missed the deadline :(

After creating an account and editing a profile- some administrative stuff- when that's done you get to tell more about what you like to write and what you think your novel might be called. The site customizes to where you are regionally and there are lounges, forums, and local events with novelist gatherings- which sounds like a whole lot of fun to me. I always thought I would someday write something- maybe a book.

On November 1 everyone begins writing their novel- I just found out about this today :( Nov. 2nd.

The goal is to write a 50,000-word novel by midnight, local time, on November 30th.

You can post excerpts of your work for others to read, and update your escalating word count. Basically this community encourages you to Write like crazy for thirty days. That's it just write!

I'm so bummed that I just found out about this- I've been really down since my LSAT scores came back lower than I wanted and this could have been a nice little distraction for me.

I think I'll do it anyway- I'll just have to lose some days and somehow find a way to use the website functions without signing up. I wonder if it will let me sign up late. If it doesn't work I guess there's always next year.