Sharp Words

As mentioned several times already in the past month or so, November is National Novel Writing Month.

This will be my seventh year taking part, and hopefully, my fifth time reaching 50,000 words in 30 days. Actually, this year I’m aiming for 75-80 thousand, since I managed 70,000 last year.

I’m extremely excited about it this year. I have a fun story idea to work on; I need to reach 50k on that, and then I can write some of my long-standing in-need-of-rewrite fantasy saga. Or rather, I’ve promised myself for every thousand words of fantasy saga that I write, I can write two thousand of my silly sci-fi. I need to reach 50,000 on a single project to properly fulfill the rules of NaNoWriMo, so that will be on my fun project. But this way, the other one gets a word count boost too.

One of the reasons I’m so excited is that for yet another year, I’m the Municipal Liaison (aka regional co-ordinator) for Northern Ireland. I’ve run a series of “Introduction to NaNoWriMo” sessions this year, both online in our chat room and face-to-face, and so far I’ve talked to 17 other WriMos – which is almost as many as I met during the whole of November last year.

Plus, we have a kick-ass kick-off party lined up for Friday, with a happy number of RSVPs – and even if they don’t all show, we’ll still have plenty of people and a good time. (And lo! the Pumpkin of Sugary Doom shall inflict destruction on all…)

And I can’t wait to get started actually writing on Sunday…