I Won NaNoWriMo!
For those of you are wondering why I have not posted on my blog in over a month, the answer is NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, a/k/a NaNoWriMo. Most of you have probably never heard of it, some of you are intimately and painfully familiar with it. In 1999 some crazy writer challenged twenty friends to write a 50,000-word novel in the month of November. Ten years and thousands of novels later there are over 100,000 participants in NaNoWriMo from all over the world. Last year over 20,000 writers made the deadline and gave birth to the first draft of a novel. Maybe a bad novel, but still a novel. 2009 was my first year as a participant, and I am proud to say I crawled over the finish line this morning with 51,459 words. Now I am feeling a little lost and disoriented, like a bear emerging from the cave after a long winter hibernation. I am still stunned in disbelief that I actually did it. I actually wrote a first draft of a novel! I will let it lie for a few weeks, th...