The Countdown is ON.

One week.

One. Week. Seven Days. Less than a hundred and sixty eight hours from now. It'll be starting then.

National Novel Writing Month. Our exercise in insanity. Fifty thousand words in thirty days.

It's not reasonable at all, I tell you. Don't these people know we have, like, jobs and stuff? We have exams and papers and kids and husbands and wives and church and charity and gym time and there's just no time for noveling! Especially in thirty days!

I think it's probably worth noting that the world rarely revolves around the reasonable.

The purpose of this blog is to keep track of my thoughts on writing as the month goes on. I already have a blog for kvetching about my life, and while I don't believe in hiding that aspect of myself I don't think that focusing on it is going to be helpful to the folks in my region.

See, for better or worse, I'm ML for my region. And while it's not my job to push people to complete their novels, it is my job to facilitate as many opportunities to complete that novel as possible. Which means write-ins and such like that. But to me, it means something more as well.

Each of the past three years I've done this project, I've managed to complete the requirements. Some would argue - fairly - that my last attempt was a little less fictional than it should have been and that I was just ranting about all that was going on in the life of a person who bore such a strong resemblance to me as to be indistinguishable.

What I mean to say by this is that I've figured out a lot of tricks that helped me to make it, and I'm pushing to go farther than I ever have before. I don't believe I have any insight that couldn't be found on the NaNoWriMo site, but I do believe that the insights to be found there are... well, scattered. Buried in threads, not all of which are necessarily useful.

My goal with this blog is to show my experience as well as the little tricks I've found helpful along the way. I'll also be detailing some new experiments I'll be trying with myself to see if I can go even further than I have set as my goal.

So, I hope this helps. And if nothing else, it'll help me stay focused, right? Right.