November and National Novel Writing Month

A few months ago a friend of mine mentioned a writing project that definitely piqued my interest, and I've been doing some serious thinking about as well as researching.

As of this evening I have officially signed up and am getting geared up to start this project in November.

The exact website is Here with all of the 411 you actually need, as well as the links and good stuff to sign up and participate yourself!

Basically it works this way:

November is National Novel Writing Month.

Starting as of November 1st through 11:59:59 pm on November 30th your goal is to write 50,000 words (so basically the equivalent of 175 pages) of a novel.

If you reach the 50k word goal by November 30th you are considered a winner and get, well, Internet credit for being awesome and whatever. Of course you can exceed the 50k word goal, all as long as it is within the month of November.

Some rules include: It has to be more than one word (so you can't write the same word 50,000 times and call it good), only one person can contribute to your story, and it can't be anything you've written before. It has to be something brand new from you.

I think it'll be a really great challenge for me personally, especially since I tend to be lax with my writing and my time with writing. While you're in the process you are able to post your novel-in-process for others to read and critique. And of course there's a bonus of the possibility of being published after partaking in said challenge.

In the 10+ years this challenge has been happening there has been one New York Times #1 Best Seller, a little ditty you may have heard of, Water For Elephants.

Anyone that I've known long enough knows that my biggest dream in life is to be a published author. The dream right after that is to be a best selling author. But it'd be sort of neat to end 2011 knowing that I was a winner in a writing challenge where I wrote a 50,000 word novel in a month.

And hey. Dreams do come true.

As November gets closer I'll be thinking more on what I'll be writing and once November hits I'm going to be writing like crazy and will probably be quieter than what you all are used to. I'll do my best to try and keep you up to date on my progress, and at the very least give you links to my progress as it should be posted as time goes on.

As you can probably tell, this is something I'm very excited about. I hope some of you will participate as well, it'll be fun to read different stories from different people.