It begins, #1

National Novel Writing Month -- more commonly known as NaNoWriMo. I'm sure you know about it by now. The idea is to write a 50,000-word novel in the month of November.

I am doing this on a whim. I have no idea whether I'll finish. But I've been wanting to get back into writing for awhile, and this seemed like a good way to do that.

I haven't written anything long since high school, when I passed my time in boring classes writing fanfiction about hunky celebrities. I'm not embarrassed about having done this -- it taught me a lot about writing, and it was a great way to pass the time while seeming to take notes in Pre-AP Chemistry.

I think that for me, NaNoWriMo will be a bridge between that and trying to write a real, publishable (?) novel. My fanfiction was for me, and a few other people who were a lot like me; with my NaNo novel, I'm stepping outside that a little bit. At least I hope I am.