Okay, dagnabbit, I'm going to unofficially (off the site???) try this NaNoWriMo thing. BUT I'm not writing 50,000 words, and I may or may not be applying to all their guidelines. Originally I thought, Oh! I'll just write a thousand words a day for the next 22 days: then I'll have the moderated goal of 22,000 words, which is still better than nothing, and considering I forgot NaNoWriMo this month and didn't get a chance to plot and outline and think ahead (which takes me a very long while....and which you ARE allowed to do during the months before NaNoWriMo!)...anyway, this still seems to be a fairly okay idea. 1,000 words really isn't hard. It's a page and a half, and remember when we used to write twenty pages a day in short-hand, cramped writing with zero paragraph breaks? Yep, those were the good old days. The fire, the cookies, the blankets, the cats that would lie on your notebook. Oh, right, this will be different because I am NOT counting out words from a notebook. Writing by hand is my preferred method for everything, but maybe this will be a good opportunity to improve my day-to-day typing skills with lengthy sentences rather than slim business e-mails.
I wanted to finish off my 1800s Sherlock Holmes fanfic because that's been stagnant, but I've already written on that. So, I'm dooming myself and jumping right in with a fresh story about a girl who travels all over in a hot air balloon.
So, there, NaNoWriMo....maybe I'll put this up online? I have no plot, no nothing. We'll see how this goes. But Wheeey, what's there to lose? My writing brain's been slipping into dormancy for a few months/years/ It can't hurt to just plain write, even if it comes out ridiculous. So here goes.
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