It's December now, and you will be happy, dear reader, to know that I have once more survived the madness of November that is NaNoWriMo. I got my 50,000 words done. The story is not all told, though, so I'm still writing it. I'm one of those people who get the title at the end. This story hasn't yet told me what its name is, so I can't tell you what it will be yet. In it, a bipolar fiddler, grieving over her husband, finds that people around her are not what they seem to be. Especially worrying is her psychiatrist's insanity, and that it seems to be contagious. I've included some thriller elements, psychic phenomena, journaling and green smoothies. It's fun, and not at all what I thought it would be when I started out. This is the fifth year in a row that I've participated in NaNoWriMo and won. You're considered to have won if you complete your 50,000 words during the month and validate your word count on the site at NaNoWriMo.org. A lot of people participate. It seems to me that the first time they try it, a lot of participants don't finish, but if they do it again the next year, they do make it. I tried in 2003, and failed, but went back in 2006 and hit it again. From the NaNoWriMo.org site: "In 2009, we had over 165,000 participants. More than 30,000 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." So, in 2011, want to join me? |
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