NaNoWriMo 2009 - Blogging as I Write

NaNoWriMo is complete and utter madness, but exhilarating at the same time.

Sometime during October you sign up and create an account if you don't already have one and you can explore the forums and find friends - I'm Sarmorrow if you want to take a peek, feel free to add me as a writing buddy if you like. Then on November 1st you start writing, you might have prepared notes, character sketches or you might have no idea what you're going to create, but you open a fresh page and you write.

After a week or so you slow down, think you can't do it, but everyone hits that wall, that block, at some point and someone, somewhere will have a tip that you can use to get through it. I use a writing buddy or two and we have word wars where we set a time and see who can write the most in that time, or race to be the first to a batch of 500 words.

It's fast, furious and so intense that you have to turn off that inner editor and critic and just write. There's no time for quality and polishing, just write and then write some more.

Then, all too soon it's November 30th and you've created a 50,000 words novel, one day at a time.

What a rush!