Well, November is coming quickly and the National Novel Writing Month’s Web site has a new design and improved system. The premise is to write 50,000 words in one month (175 pages). The only rule is to write, period. It doesn’t matter if it’s good, it doesn’t matter if you have a plot and it doesn’t matter if you’ve never written anything of substance in the past. Because of the short time frame you will have to lower your expectations and just let the words flow. This should silence your internal critic because of the lack of expectations, except to finish with 50,000 typed words. The possibilities are endless as are the benefits of going on the NaNo WriMo journey with thousands of other would-be authors.

They are currently accepting anyone who wants to sign-up for the project. Writing begins November 1st and ends at midnight on November 30th. There is a forum where members can get and offer encouragement. It’s an interesting community and I highly recommend joining a.s.a.p. and get a feel of what is going down the month of November. Membership is free, though they are asking for donations to help cover their cost and to help in sponsoring libraries in Cambodia.

They also provide participants icons like these:

I have joined and hope to complete the 50,000 words this year. I just have to convince my internal, or is it “eternal”? editor to stay out of my way for one month! And that my design work doesn’t take up too much of my time. It doesn’t look like this blogs design is going to be changing any time soon. Oh, well … there’s always another month, another year, another lifetime.