NaNoWriMo

This drives me nuts. I do quite a bit of writing. This blog, the occasional technical article, speech notes for Toastmasters, short stories, etc. And there ain’t nothin’ worse than a big load of writer’s block coming down and just making it impossible to write down what’s in your head.

Wow, was November ever a hectic month for me. Between working on Toast IT and TIGC I didn't even make it to 10k words on my NaNoWriMo entry.

In the end, though, Toast IT is doing fine (in fact, probably the best it's been since I became club president). TIGC is unfortunately on hiatus now, due to organizational issues that I won't get into (as well as OMDC scheduling their own game development event at the same time as ours, which certainly didn't help).

And so, after three weeks without blog posts, I'm finally writing in here again. So it might actually be worthwhile to keep an eye out on the site again! Especially since I'll be posting my NaNoWriMo entry up here shortly. (EDIT: It's up.)

For those of you who actually read this blog, my profuse apologies for my horrible lack of posting over the last month. While some of you might think it has to do with my novel for NaNoWriMo, the truth is that many things have been getting in the way. If it were just my NaNoWriMo entry, I'm sure that my wordcount would be much higher than it is right now.

With NaNoWriMo 2007 entering its second week, participants should be at about 13350 words (give or take a few to round it out). Me? I'm at 1473 words. That's not for lack of trying, either.

The problem? I can't make as much time as I should to write, and when I do make time, I get stuck trying to push through my prose. A professional writer, I am not. However, if I can get myself to write about 2000 words each day for the rest of the month, I can still make the 50000 word target.

As I've been reading a lot more lately (what with my computer still not replaced) and have been entertaining the idea of fiction writing for some time, I've started considering whether I should take part in this year's NaNoWriMo or not. It would certainly be an interesting way to unwind after the madness of TIGC.