I am a Wrimo

I've joined Nanowrimo. It's true.

Here's what this means:

1. I have to write the first draft of a novel within one month (of November). Or at least the first 50,000 words, anyway.

2. I'm probably crazy. I met a bunch of other Wrimos on the weekend and they're all certifiably crazy. They have names like Welestra, Wordtraveller, ChrisK0, Girlwithapearl, Ziggi, Viorica and Carasin. And then there's a Gale. Just regular ol' Gale. But she's an Anglican priest-slash-fantasy adventure writer so she's probably crazy too.

3. I may not be doing a whole lot of blogging during the month of November. I'll be kinda busy. It may get quiet around here.

4. I have to finalize an outline within the next three days if I'm going to have a chance at this. The outline, once finished, must look roughly like this:

linear thematic

events events

1--------->AA

2--------->BB

3--------->CC

4--------->DD

5--------->EE

6--------->FF

7--------->GG

Currently, it looks something like this:

2--------->A

1--------->DD

3,4,7----->Q

5--------->BB

6--------->BBBBCA

911------->%!@

5. Also within the next three days, I must:

a) Get familiar with the main character.

b) Name the main character (suggestions eagerly accepted).

c) Figure out how to stop MS Word from crashing every time I try to save a file (great time for this to come up).

d) Inform friends and associates that I'm on November hiatus.

e) Destroy telephone

Okay - back to outline fiddling {sigh}.

Image wickedly expropriated from nanowrimo.org