It's time to take up the challenge...

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. Or, perhaps, crack your knuckles. November is NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. All over the world, men and women will take up the challenge of writing a complete novel, 50,000 words in length, in one month. That's right, 50,000 words of narrative joy, cranked out in 30 days.

Step 1: sign up at the web site
Step 2: get excited for November to get here
Step 3: sweat and bleed over your keyboard for 30 days
Step 4: upload your novel to the site
Step 5: you win! (provided it's 50,000 words or more in length and isn't a product of ctrl-V)

I have no idea if I could get anywhere near a coherent novel, never having written much more than blog articles, research papers, and a single short story. But the challenge is just too much to resist!

Come this November, I'm going to give it a go. 1667 words per day, here I come.

I wonder what my novel will be about?