As long-time readers are probably aware, I tilt at the windmill of National Novel Writing Month every other year or so. Sometimes I successfully dump 50 thousand words of questionable quality onto the digital page. Most of the time I don’t. And I’ve never been fully pleased with the result.
This will not a be a NaNoWriMo year. I’ve got too many projects with actual paychecks attached to them to spare the time for such a noble-but-non-paying endeavor.
All the same, it’s been a while since I’ve done any actual fiction writing. I miss it. I want to do it. And so I declare November to be National Just Write Some Fiction Already Month (or NaJuWriSoFiAlMo for short).
I will declare myself a winner when I have finished any fiction, of any length, by the end of November.
Will I hit even this low bar? Ask me again in December and we’ll find out together!
(If you wish to join me on this journey of low expectation, you’re welcome to do so! Feel free to grab the image from this post, attach it to your declaration of intent, and let me know in the comments. We’ll form a supportive community of writers who cock eyebrows at each other and say encouraging things like, “You could have written a flash fiction in the time it took you to watch that episode of Scandal. What is wrong with you?”)
