NaNoWriMo in 10...9...well, closer to 45

National Novel Writing Month is about to begin. I tried last year and failed. I had a bet with another participant to motivate me last year. Unfortunately, she finished, I did not and it cost me a tee shirt from the NaNoWriMo store. However, I had a trip to Florida the first week of November and a trip up north the 4th week of November. It was the eternal optimist in me that thought I would squeeze out time on my trips to write. This year will be different. Somehow I will squeeze out that writing time. Or confess failure to a wider audience.

I think that I have to think about it more as an endurance test than a purely creative endeavor. Like making your self run or exercise. Flexing the creativity should be a benefit of the nanowrimo exercise but it is the forcing yourself to the keyboard for the daily jog that gets you there. I am going to see if I can find a word count widget for this blog. Otherwise I will just make dozens of short posts with date and count.