NaNoWriMo is a little bit nightmare, little bit fun, and a lot of effort. Ah hell, its pretty cool and this will make my second year of participation. For those who don’t know this is something of a competition to write a 50,000 word novel of questionable quality between the 1st and 31st of November. In this case Quantity far outweighs Quality. Be it a crap unreadable piece of rubbish or not – its irrelevant. Just wrote those 50,000 words.

So why do it? NaNoWriMo is the brainchild of a San Francisco Bay Area resident. After doing these with a group friends about 4 years ago it has turned into something of a cult. I heard about it back in 2002, joined up under an alias (We’ve established I’m in no mood to associate my Maugrim handle with the *other* one) but didn’t really give it a shot until last year. I got to 12k words last year – people may have noticed the sudden increase in rambling goodness I started posting in bits and pieces…

Unfortunately having lectures 4 nights a week limits writing time – I hope to go all the way this year, all 50,000 steps of the way.

The novel this year will be a Fantasy hack’n'slash Nemedia Novel (if you happen to be aware of the Talisman War plotline – if not, will be fun ;-)). Entitled “Tales of a Travelling Rogue”. It’s subject to change. I suppose I could go with “Tales of a Professional Gambler and Mercenary for Hire” but Lugnar the daft old fool might not appreciate the gesture. Bad things happen when you make fun of Ye Gods.

Hopefully that 100k fund will get filled this time around!

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