Although the website isn’t quite functional yet, I’m participating in Camp NaNoWriMo, a summer version of the novel-in-a-month phenomenon. Formerly known as JuNoWriMo, which can stand for June/July Novel Writing Month, this challenge has the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel in thirty days, which breaks down to 1,667 words a day.
I’m going to be (re)writing my novel THING, wherein Tom Lord the former marathon racing pilot and one very eccentric professor try to keep the professor’s nemesis from stealing his invention. It’s zany sci-fi in the spirit of Douglas Adams, but without intelligent mice or anyone named Slartibartfast.
Of course, I can’t do anything halfway; rather, I overdo. And in the spirit of excess, I’ve decided to write twelve chapters instead of ten and at least two thousand words a day instead of sixteen hundred. For a total of 72,000 words.
It’s June 1. How am I doing so far?
WORD COUNT: 3,820
Yeah. Go ahead and be impressed.
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