NaNoWriMo

Otherwise known as National Novel Writing Month. In November I will attempt to write 50,000 words in thirty days. That will be around work, parenting, and the genetic need for a minimum of eight and half hours sleep a night. So far, with my job, I've managed to write about ten pages every two weeks. Under NaNoWriMo rules I will have to produce about five pages a day. That's without dialog. Dialog creates inordinate amounts of white space. Space without any words. Which is bad.  NaNoWriMo is all about quantity. Quality is burned in effigy and internal editors are chained to the radiator. All that matters is your word count, your friend's word count, and whether your word count is higher.

If I write one word blogs during November, or all my haikus are missing the last line, that is because these words Do Not Count.

So on this day, sometime before November 2008, I, Daisy, do hereby pledge to write long winded paragraphs, abysmal subplots, crappy dialog and ignore plot structure altogether. In regards to character arc, if my finished work has a consistent protagonist, it will be a miracle. May the one with the highest word count win.

Wish me luck!