NaNoWriMo in October!

One of my friends last year gave me a novel writing kit called No Plot? No Problem by Chris Baty, the founder of National Write a Novel Month. My step-father has been trying to finish his novel for 2 years and I have had difficulties as well. Part of what Baty implies/suggests is that this kit will jump-start a person with his/her writing.

So I am now going to do my very own NaNoWriMo (I'm only telling you now b/c part of the kit is to tell people). We're each going to write a 50,000+ word novel. We tried to do it in September but about 2 weeks in realized that we both work best and fastest when we have a plot and research all ready for us when we start. We're going to take the next 10 days and prep by writing out our plot-outlines and doing our research.

Then we'll start writing October 8, 2013.

I'm letting you all know about this for two reasons:

(1) Once I start the novel writing process, I won't be fully active here or anywhere on the net for a while. I've determined that the internet is just too much of a temptation to procrastinate writing (too many pretty pictures and stories and videos) and I'm going to have to reduce my internet usage to 20 minutes per day (which will most likely be eaten up easily by my regular emails and my school work, but hopefully I'll be able to get some dA message time in).

(2) Part of the challenge for NaNoWriMo is to let people know that you're doing it so that they can be your cheerleaders (and if you procrastinate, your punishment/taunters for not finishing or not working hard).

I would prefer that you be my cheerleaders, so I will do my best this upcoming month. I appreciate and love any encouragement you give me ^_^

As a way to garner and earn some of that encouragement and possibly get any sympathy needed when I hit a difficult chapter or have a bad day, I will periodically let you know what my progress is throughout the month of October. Once I finish, we can all celebrate in November!