Well I’ve done it. Or rather, I’m about to do it.

Wanted to do it last year, but was scared. Seemed too…hard. Others were doing it though, and from the outside looking in, everybody doing it seemed like experts at it. I thought, ‘I can’t compete at this with these people. They’re intellectual athletes!’ But the thought of doing it like an expert intrigued me and my excitement was building up to just do it – just jump in the water panties off and all.

And just as I was about to say, ‘Well I’m ready. I’m going to do it’…I almost died. That slowed me down a bit.

But this year, I am healthy again. And stronger. And finally, I am ready to commit. This year, I’m going to do it.

I am going to participate in this years NaNoWriMo!

I am super mega excited. I have been trying to take it slow while recovering from my strokes so in November I plan to work on this and my Yes! cover, maybe another piece for Wax Poetics and let that be what closes out my year, along with sending out queries for next year. What I write may be a block of crap but at least I’ll have a solid block of writing that has a start, a middle and an ending. And that can always be tweaked later. I’ll be sure to post updates and pics of my frazzled self writing my arse off at least once a week. I have to remind myself to outline this week so I can jump right in to my novel on November first.

For you scriptwriters out there, there’s this. If all goes well with NaNoWriMo I’m gonna harass and sad-mommy-face my children into doing the NaMoWriMo Young Writers Program next year.