At the twiddle of my fingers ...

National Novel Writing Month

http://www.nanowrimo.org/


For you budding novelists who just cant get started, there's a contest
just for you :D

Here's some excerp: by the way, I WILL be participating in this :D Just
gotta write it WHILE at work! Well not everything at work, I mean I actually have to work and stuff.

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to
novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to
write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo
is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly
about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort
involved.

Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in
NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The
kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks,
and write on the fly.

Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good
thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving
yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking
and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.

As you spend November writing, you can draw comfort from the fact
that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month
participants are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing
the Great Frantic Novel. Wrimos meet throughout the month to offer
encouragement, commiseration, and -- when the thing is done -- the
kind of raucous celebrations that tend to frighten animals and small
children.

In 2004, we had over 42,000 participants. Nearly 6000 of them crossed
the 50k finish line by the midnight deadline, entering into the annals
of NaNoWriMo superstardom forever. They started the month as auto
mechanics, out-of-work actors, and middle school English teachers.
They walked away novelists