November's Insane - Now Try Adding 50,000 Words to the Mix

So as November approaches I look at my schedule and wonder. November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) where if you join in you have to write a novel in one month, or 50,000 words. I have taken part in NaNoWriMo a few times over the past years and was debating trying it this year too.

Looking at my schedule though, I do wonder if I could handle it. I have recently started college classes and I'm also working at the Dollar Tree still. Also that month is so busy for me. The first weekend is our conference, and later in the month we have Thanksgiving - also if it works out reading my first chapter this Friday, the next writers group meeting is November 11th. So a pretty slammed month as it is...could I also squeeze in 50,000 words of my story.

And then I say...what if I could? I would finish book one of my trilogy and give me another boost to keep writing. Also then I think (with my head in the skies!) that if I wrote the rough draft in November - during the month of December I could rewrite and hopefully have my first book completely done and ready to share by the new year. This of course is bit of a stretch but I do dream all the same.

So I wonder if it is worth the risk and stress to try and squeeze those 50,000 words into November. I could majorly fail...but I could also succeed...it would just be a very hectic, insane month.

Black and Blue Ink

The past few days I have been writing every spare moment I had. First my inspiration was planning on sharing it at a writers gorup this Friday. But then it turned into an idea. I had earlier joked to Erin that for her birthday I would give her my first chapter for free. Well, Erin's birthday came and I decided that I would give her the first chapter.

Though her birthday was Wednesday we decided to celebrate it Thursday after Andrew and I were done with school. That was a blessing. I was at school and during my breaks was writing like a mad thing trying to get it finished for Erin. I finished just in time and slipped the printed copy into her gift bag (but not before the printer ran out of black ink and I had to print half the chapter in blue).

But she read it that very night and gave me a number of helpful ways to improve it - for which I was most thankful. I'll have to edit it one more time before Friday...now I just have to get over my fear of reading it out loud in front of an audience.