Happy November 1! Greetings from the land of NaNoWriMo, where 300,000 or so novelists and would-be-novels are scrambling to produce 50,000 words in a measly 30 days.

Just exactly how do they — we — intend to do that?

One word at a time.

Or 1,667 words a day.

Or whatever other (new, old, imaginary…) math works out to 50K words by midnight November 30. Oh, yeah, baby. That’s doable. That’s reachable. That’s … Well, that’s just plumb crazy. But it’s still possible. I know, because 36,843 writers did it last year. I was one of them. And I’m going to do it again.

Write on, my fellow Wrimos. Write like the wind!

Holy-moly-schimoligans. I am really building up some speed. Another few hundred words, and I will be a full day ahead of schedule. Finally. catching up to the target. (I totally misread my daily target worksheet earlier. Doh!)

I intend to increase that cushion I’ll be pushing hard to put myself ahead of schedule by continuing to write my tootsies off this weekend.With a Chatterbox listening party tonight (more about that later), my birthday on the 20th, and Thanksgiving on the 24th, I really have to get ahead of my target to hit it by November 30. Correction: To hit it the morning of November 30. I definitely want to avoid falling into a last-minute panic as the final day of this amazing novel-writing adventure ticks to a close.

What about you? Are you working on a NaNo novel? If yes, how’s it going? If not, why not?

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dh