Kicking It Up!

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writer's Month) has initiated, so I have been plugging away at 1600+ word quotas each day and faring pretty well. I practiced back in June and July, but this is for real.

I hope to keep ahead of quota and finish, since I succeeded back in the summer. The goal is to produce a 50,000 word work of fiction. This can be classified as a "novel" but the main point is to hit the quota mark in thirty days. It was fun to do this back in the summer, and I am beginning to have fun with the story I'm writing right now.

It's science fiction, and there's a whole community at NaNoWriMo.org devoted to science fiction. I've read some of the forums and posted a few of my thoughts there. All in all, it's been a major distraction from more important things, but I could see how the forums could be interesting and useful. The part where I call it a distraction is mainly the amount of replies a post can get even after I feel like it should've ended.

There are some forum posts that look very interesting that I won't read, just because there's more than twenty or thirty replies posted on just that one thread. To me, that's information overload.

Anyway, I'll try to post semi-regularly this month, under the NaNoWriMo label so people can see.

What's my current word count? 7200 even. Wow.