It’s only a week before November, which means we only have seven days before NaNoWriMo!
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is what I’ve been doing every year for the past two years on November. It’s when people (writers, professional or not, talented or not hehe) all over the world write like crazy for thirty days to finish a 50,000-word novel.
There’s no price. You don’t win any money (except some icons and pride that you’ve finished a 50,000-word novel in a month). But I join every year just to prove to myself that I can do it.
Your novel doesn’t even have to be good. You don’t even need to edit it before the end of November. It might be crap, full of loopholes, and will never see the light of day in the bookstore but that’s not the point of NaNoWriMo. The point is… WRITING 50,000 WORDS FOR A NOVEL AND ENJOYING IT. That’s it.
I’ve only been doing it for two years and I crossed the finish line both times. Yay!
My online novel started as a NaNoWriMo entry in 2007. I finished 50,000 words but didn’t finish the novel. The finished novel is currently a little over 60,000 words. In 2008, I finished 50,000 words again, but not the novel. My 2008 entry is supposed to be a three-part series (even in English, I like writing series), and I started the last book. Fifty thousand words were enough to write several adventures of the eight main characters… I write really, really long stories in English 
I still don’t have a plan as to what to write for NaNo 2009, but I never plan them anyway. I’m thinking that I should write two-and-a-half Tagalog novellas and submit it to my publisher in December. Hit several birds with one NaNoWriMo stone
Want to be my Writing Buddy? My NaNo ID is akra_athena. I’m soooo excited. Can’t wait for November.
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