Your Dark Passenger

As a writer I constantly find myself with too much to fill the too few hours of the day.  For example, I currently have four completed manuscripts in varying stages of revision, five outlined plots waiting to be written, three brand new novel ideas that have recently popped into my head and a few blogs.  When you take into account that I’m the lead singer and lead guitarist for Screamin’ Orgasms (yeah, that’s the name of the band I share with my hubby on Rock Band) and a recent Fable 2 addict, well, you can see my hands are full.  So you can imagine how hectic the month of November is going to be for me.

Wait.  What?  You don’t know what I mean?

Let me explain.  In addition to being the home of my most favorite holiday ever (Thanksgiving…mmm…yummy), November is also where two very important writing events collide.  NaNoWriMo aka National Novel Writing Month and NaBloPoMo aka National Blog Posting Month are both growing popularity.  Alone, they are each a worthy challenge.  Together…better start the coffee maker, peeps.

NaNoWriMo was created in 1999 to give those procrastinators we know and love known as authors the motivation to finally get to work on their novel.  The rules are simple: Begin work on November 1st, write until midnight November 30th and shoot for 50,000 words.  Sounds easy, right?  Yeah, that would be a negative.  You see, authors are also notorious for being perfectionists.  We will write and rewrite and then edit some more all the live-long day and have very little to show for our toils.  That sort of thing isn’t going to cut it when you consider you’ve got to write something like 1,200-1,300 words per day to stay on target.

NaBloPoMo, on the other hand, isn’t quite so bad.  The goal is simply to encourage bloggers to post more regularly.  It has been said that if you can do something every day for 30 days then you can do it daily for a lifetime.  I don’t know about that because I was great at stopping my workout regimen after a few months, but I don’t usually break a sweat while blogging so maybe there’s something to it in this case.  At any rate, the real challenge to a blog a day is that you don’t get to take a break on weekends.  The trouble with that is Hubby McHubberson doesn’t know I’m insane enough to sign up for something like this.

Scratch that.  He knows I’m crazy enough to do this; he doesn’t know I’m actually doing it this month.

In case anyone is interested in keeping up with my insanity levels during NaBloPoMo then you’re in the right place since http://darkpassenger.today.com is my official blog for the month of November - if not forever.

And if anyone out there is interested in keeping up with my NaNoWriMo madness then drop me a comment here to let me know.  I still haven’t decided if I’m willing share these 50,000 words as I go.  I mean, if I do this right, they’ll be 50,000 unedited and nonsensical words.  Who’d want to read that?  (Or does that just make it more appealing?)

Either way, it’s now that time when I need to end the blogging portion of my evening.  What’s that?  You want to know if it’s because I need to get back to the novel-writing part?  Hmm…I should…but South Park’s about to come on.  I’ve always got tomorrow to make up today’s 1,200 words.

See you tomorrow!

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