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<\/a><\/p>\nFirst up, I can tell you right now, despite my criticisms the general idea of NaNoWriMo<\/strong> is sound. I officially started MOCKINGBIRD<\/strong> at the front of October and I am now 60,000 words deep — and I’ve still got a week left in the month. Further, I don’t really write much on weekends. So, like I said: doable. That being said, it’s maybe kinda sorta<\/em> important to note that writing is my job. Like, my full-time I-spend-all-my-hours-bleeding-imagination-juice-on-the-page job.<\/p>\n (Also worth the reference: I dunno if you saw, but the Mighty Matt Forbeck is doing his “12-for-12<\/strong><\/span><\/a>” project, meaning, 12 novels in 12 months<\/em>. An impressive and, even for me, mind-boggling endeavor.)<\/p>\n Whatever the case, National Novel Writing Month is nearly upon us, a great heaving swarm of hungry writers getting ready to attack their stories with rabid creativity and wanton penmonkey lunacy.<\/p>\n So, the questions I have are these:<\/p>\n Who out there is doing NaNoWriMo this year?<\/p>\n Who’s done it before?<\/p>\n How did you prepare for it, and what happened to those novels that you completed?<\/p>\n What were your experiences?<\/p>\n What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n Any wisdom to pass down to future participants?<\/p>\n Like it? Love it? Hate it?<\/p>\n Discuss.<\/p>\n