Alright, so. It is approaching that time of year again. Yup, that is right, it is just under 51 days and 10 hrs until the kick off of the National Novel Writing Month. And, yes, I plan on participating again this year. Unfortunately, I have no idea what to write about.

For those that are not familiar (and I'm sure a large portion of the people that end up reading this lovely little blog are not familiar...), NaNoWriMo (shorthand for National Novel Writing Month) is a challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. This equates to roughly a 175 page novel. To break that down a bit more, in order to meet this goal, you need to average 1,667 words a day. Everyday. For the month of November. Yup, its really quite insane, but quite fun as well. You get to meet new people if you go to the write-ins (in which case, more socializing then writing tends to happen, at least, that was the norm last year ;)). And you get to write. A lot. Check out the link above for more info, and in when the clock strikes October, sign up, and start preparing for a month of no sleep, lots of caffiene, and limited human interaction. (And yes, I know, the ptc people that read this are already pretty well adapted to that, but I figure I might as well warn anyways).

Now, since that is all covered, lets get to the whole point of this post. I have no freaking clue what to write. Last year I started writing a cyberpunk type book (and I'll finish it someday, but I don't want to do that this year). The year before that, was an attempt at a psycological thriller. Again, I didn't finish. This year. I have no idea. I'm thinking something relaxing, laid back and funny. But what exactly, I have yet to figure that out. And so, I have added a section to my lovely wiki (that has seen very, very little use), for people to post idea's for characters, plot, setting, etc. I'm even open to writing dares. (the nano forum dare threads get freaking huge btw..). Any ideas.

And I think thats about it for now. In the coming days, if I can find time, I want to start doing writing exercises, that I'll probably post here. (Or maybe I'll make use of the drupal book plugin and track that stuff there). In fact, the book idea sounds like a good idea, I think I'll do that. I'll post when that starts.

Let the insanity begin! Or continue! Or whatever!

--nullpuppy(out)