National Novel Writing Month begins tomorrow, and I still have no idea what I’m going to write about! But it’s all good. I’m not too worried about it. After all, one of my favorite ways to write is just to start with a character and a situation and go from there. There’s something very liberating about letting the story take its own course, not knowing what’s lurking around the corner.Anyways, starting bright and early tomorrow morning, my fingers will be typing away, trying to get at least 1,667 words per day . . . and all of this on top of a full time job and a freelance web design career!

Wish me luck!

Thursday is the first day of November, and you know what that means! It’s almost time for National Novel Writing Month!

I’m excited and a little nervous about the whole shindig: excited for obvious reasons, but nervous because I still have absolutely no idea what I’m going to write about, so I might have to resort to my backup strategy.

My preferred strategy for NaNoWriMo is to have a plan, and possibly an outline for my book before November 1 arrives, but it’s starting to look like that’s not going to happen. So my backup strategy is just to start with a character in a ridiculous situation and go from there, writing without a plan. This strategy can definitely be fun. It’s exciting to have no idea what lies around the next corner. But it also makes me a little nervous.

Either way, I’m really excited about November, even though I won’t have much of a social life for 30 days. Anyways, if you’re doing NaNoWriMo too, drop me a line and keep in touch!

As some of you may know, I’m currently working the equivalent of two jobs. By day, I’m a full time Flash trainer for LearnFlash.com, and by night I’m a freelance web designer. So, as you can imagine, I tend to stay pretty busy, especially now that my freelance business is starting to pick up. In fact, I’m busier now than I’ve been at any other point in my life.

So there couldn’t be any worse time for me to stack something else on top of my plate, but that’s exactly what I’m going to do in the month of November. As many wannabe writers know, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). In November, psychotic writers all over the globe commit to writing 50,000 pages in only 30 days. (Why couldn’t they have picked a month with 31 days??) That amounts to over 1600 words PER DAY!

NaNoWriMo encourages writers everywhere to stop making excuses and start writing! It also encourages you to ignore your “inner critic” for 30 days and avoid doing any editing at all cost! After all, editing is what draft #2 is for! Will NaNoWriMo result in a literary masterpiece? Probably not! But it will get you started in the right direction.

So if you need a boost, check out nanowrimo.com and join the masses of writers who have decided to stop making excuses. The website has a great community forums section, where you can keep up with other writers who are taking the challenge. The forums are a great source of motivation for everyone crazy enough to put themselves through the ordeal!

So go sign up today and look me up! My user name is craigsoup.